{
  "context": "This criteria evaluates how well the engineer uses the aws-requests-auth package's canonical request construction functionality. The focus is on leveraging the package's built-in methods for canonical path and query string generation rather than implementing these from scratch.",
  "type": "weighted_checklist",
  "checklist": [
    {
      "name": "Uses get_canonical_path",
      "description": "Implementation uses the AWSRequestsAuth.get_canonical_path() static method or imports and calls the get_canonical_path function from aws-requests-auth for canonicalizing URI paths",
      "max_score": 30
    },
    {
      "name": "Uses get_canonical_querystring",
      "description": "Implementation uses the AWSRequestsAuth.get_canonical_querystring() static method or imports and calls the get_canonical_querystring function from aws-requests-auth for canonicalizing query strings",
      "max_score": 30
    },
    {
      "name": "Correct empty path handling",
      "description": "Empty path test case passes, demonstrating proper use of aws-requests-auth's default behavior of returning '/' for empty paths",
      "max_score": 10
    },
    {
      "name": "Correct path encoding",
      "description": "Path encoding test case passes, showing that special characters in paths are properly encoded using aws-requests-auth's canonical path logic",
      "max_score": 10
    },
    {
      "name": "Correct query sorting",
      "description": "Query parameter sorting test case passes, demonstrating that aws-requests-auth's canonical query string method correctly sorts parameters alphabetically by key",
      "max_score": 15
    },
    {
      "name": "Correct empty query handling",
      "description": "Empty query string test case passes, showing proper handling of empty query strings using aws-requests-auth functionality",
      "max_score": 5
    }
  ]
}