From a59fa43d3760afd113ea48983d9f2b3eab156474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Hermes <daniel.j.hermes@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:42:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Adding Bucket.path_helper static method for external use.

This covers callers which want a bucket path but don't want
to create a full-flegded Bucket object.

See #586 for context.
---
 gcloud/storage/bucket.py     | 14 +++++++++++++-
 gcloud/storage/connection.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gcloud/storage/bucket.py b/gcloud/storage/bucket.py
index edb0e7e4b577b..f2def041e549b 100644
--- a/gcloud/storage/bucket.py
+++ b/gcloud/storage/bucket.py
@@ -128,13 +128,25 @@ def connection(self):
         """
         return self._connection
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def path_helper(bucket_name):
+        """Relative URL path for a bucket.
+
+        :type bucket_name: string
+        :param bucket_name: The bucket name in the path.
+
+        :rtype: string
+        :returns: The relative URL path for ``bucket_name``.
+        """
+        return '/b/' + bucket_name
+
     @property
     def path(self):
         """The URL path to this bucket."""
         if not self.name:
             raise ValueError('Cannot determine path without bucket name.')
 
-        return '/b/' + self.name
+        return self.path_helper(self.name)
 
     def get_blob(self, blob):
         """Get a blob object by name.
diff --git a/gcloud/storage/connection.py b/gcloud/storage/connection.py
index 46eb40564e970..54e83d532261c 100644
--- a/gcloud/storage/connection.py
+++ b/gcloud/storage/connection.py
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ def delete_bucket(self, bucket_name):
         :type bucket_name: string
         :param bucket_name: The bucket name to delete.
         """
-        bucket_path = '/b/' + bucket_name
+        bucket_path = Bucket.path_helper(bucket_name)
         self.api_request(method='DELETE', path=bucket_path)
 
     def generate_signed_url(self, resource, expiration,