"""Utility for handling response objects from microservice requests."""


def safe_decode_json(response, service):
    """Decode json response or return error response if no json is present.

    Args:
        response: http response object

    Returns:
        response_json (dict): parsed json response or error response
    """
    try:
        response_json = response.json()
    except ValueError:
        error_message = 'An error was encountered connecting to {}'.format(
            service)
        response_json = {
            'message': error_message,
            'status': response.status_code,
            'code': 'Internal Error'}

    return response_json