Object metadata keys are lowercased when uploading to GCS
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Description
## Summary
Mixed-case metadata is lowercased when using libcloud to upload objects to Google Cloud Storage.
## Detailed Information
I'm using libcloud to upload files to a Google Cloud Storage bucket together with object metadata.
In the process, the keys in my metadata dict are being lowercased. This is not due to Google Cloud Storage, which does support mixed case metadata.
The issue can be reproduced following the example from the docs:
```
from libcloud.storage.types import Provider
from libcloud.storage.providers import get_driver
cls = get_driver(Provider.GOOGLE_STORAGE)
driver = cls('SA-EMAIL', './SA.json') # provide service account credentials here
FILE_PATH = '/home/user/file'
extra = {'meta_data': {'camelCase': 'foo'}}
# Upload with metadata
with open(FILE_PATH, 'rb') as iterator:
obj = driver.upload_object_via_stream(iterator=iterator,
container=container,
object_name='file',
extra=extra)
```
The file uploads succesfully, but resulting metadata will look as follows:

Where `camelCase` has been turned into `camelcase`.
I'm using apache-libcloud==3.0.0 with Python 3.8 on Linux (the python:3.8 Docker image).
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the upload_object_via_stream entry point and trace how the extra metadata dict is prepared for Google Cloud Storage. Reproduce the example with the camelCase key, then verify that the uploaded object's metadata preserves its original casing.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- google-cloud, python
- Domain
- cloud
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100