code: def _decode_response(response):
      
      content = response.content.strip()
      logging.debug(content[:512])
      response.raise_for_status()
      if content.startswith(GERRIT_MAGIC_JSON_PREFIX):
          content = content[len(GERRIT_MAGIC_JSON_PREFIX):]
      try:
          return json.loads(content)
      except ValueError:
          logging.error('Invalid json content: %s' % content)
          raise
docs: Strip off Gerrit's magic prefix and decode a response.
  
      :returns:
          Decoded JSON content as a dict, or raw text if content could not be
          decoded as JSON.
  
      :raises:
          requests.HTTPError if the response contains an HTTP error status code.