create-class-dynamically.py

def deserialize_remote_exception(conf, data):
    failure = jsonutils.loads(str(data))

    trace = failure.get('tb', [])
    message = failure.get('message', "") + "\n" + "\n".join(trace)
    name = failure.get('class')
    module = failure.get('module')

    # NOTE(ameade): We DO NOT want to allow just any module to be imported, in
    # order to prevent arbitrary code execution.
    if module not in conf.allowed_rpc_exception_modules:
        return RemoteError(name, failure.get('message'), trace)

    try:
        mod = importutils.import_module(module)
        klass = getattr(mod, name)
        if not issubclass(klass, Exception):
            raise TypeError("Can only deserialize Exceptions")

        failure = klass(*failure.get('args', []), **failure.get('kwargs', {}))
    except (AttributeError, TypeError, ImportError):
        return RemoteError(name, failure.get('message'), trace)

    ex_type = type(failure)
    str_override = lambda self: message
    new_ex_type = type(ex_type.__name__ + _REMOTE_POSTFIX, (ex_type,),
                       {'__str__': str_override, '__unicode__': str_override})
    new_ex_type.__module__ = '%s%s' % (module, _REMOTE_POSTFIX)
    try:
        # NOTE(ameade): Dynamically create a new exception type and swap it in
        # as the new type for the exception. This only works on user defined
        # Exceptions and not core python exceptions. This is important because
        # we cannot necessarily change an exception message so we must override
        # the __str__ method.
        failure.__class__ = new_ex_type
    except TypeError:
        # NOTE(ameade): If a core exception then just add the traceback to the
        # first exception argument.
        failure.args = (message,) + failure.args[1:]
    return failure