Enable breaking test for adopt operation

After turning off by default adopt and abandon one of the test show
traceback during unittests. This patch fix this problem, by overriding
config option for this test.

Change-Id: I8e0f8662753681079e4dd22c0726042ad47eabf0
Refactor template simple_parse

The places that use simple_parse all have to check if the returned value
is a dict, so that logic can be safely moved into simple_parse itself to
avoid duplication.

Co-Authored-By: Asif Choudhury <choudhury.asif@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I973f97fa5ce46e7492611555759d20131b98ab07
Merge "Enable breaking test for adopt operation"
Merge "Refactor template simple_parse"