API validaton exemption for Danube-based releaseovp.1.1.0

This patch adds the ability to Dovetail to disable strict API
response validation in Tempest-based test cases run by Functest. This is
a backport of the changes from master, targeting OVP 1.0.1

Corresponding updates of the web portal will follow.

JIRA: DOVETAIL-633

Change-Id: Iace99ea1b6224ea907a2c3af8676e9285e6ad3ee
Signed-off-by: Georg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dovetail/run.py b/dovetail/run.py
index e5154ad1..5ff22323 100755
--- a/dovetail/run.py
+++ b/dovetail/run.py
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def copy_patch_files(logger):
     patch_set_path = dt_cfg.dovetail_config['patch_dir']
     if not os.path.isdir(patch_set_path):
         os.makedirs(patch_set_path)
-    cmd = 'sudo cp -r %s/* %s' % (patch_path, patch_set_path)
+    cmd = 'sudo cp -a -r %s/* %s' % (patch_path, patch_set_path)
     dt_utils.exec_cmd(cmd, logger, exit_on_error=False)
 
 
@@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ def main(*args, **kwargs):
     else:
         dt_cfg.dovetail_config['offline'] = False
 
+    if kwargs['no_api_validation']:
+        dt_cfg.dovetail_config['no_api_validation'] = True
+        logger.warning('Strict API response validation DISABLED.')
+    else:
+        dt_cfg.dovetail_config['no_api_validation'] = False
+
     dt_utils.get_hardware_info(logger)
 
     origin_testarea = kwargs['testarea']