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+# Copyright 2010 New Relic, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""This module provides common utilities for interacting with OTLP protocol buffers."""
+
+import logging
+_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+try:
+    from newrelic.packages.opentelemetry_proto.common_pb2 import AnyValue, KeyValue
+except ImportError:
+    create_key_value, create_key_values_from_iterable = None, None
+else:
+    def create_key_value(key, value):
+        if isinstance(value, bool):
+            return KeyValue(key=key, value=AnyValue(bool_value=value))
+        elif isinstance(value, int):
+            return KeyValue(key=key, value=AnyValue(int_value=value))
+        elif isinstance(value, float):
+            return KeyValue(key=key, value=AnyValue(double_value=value))
+        elif isinstance(value, str):
+            return KeyValue(key=key, value=AnyValue(string_value=value))
+        # Technically AnyValue accepts array, kvlist, and bytes however, since
+        # those are not valid custom attribute types according to our api spec,
+        # we will not bother to support them here either.
+        else:
+            _logger.warn("Unsupported ML event attribute value type %s: %s." % (key, value))
+
+
+    def create_key_values_from_iterable(iterable):
+        if isinstance(iterable, dict):
+            iterable = iterable.items()
+
+        return list(
+            filter(
+                lambda i: i is not None,
+                (create_key_value(key, value) for key, value in iterable),
+            )
+        )