'Prepares API v2 request for a given method and args.'

def _PrepareV2Request(self, method, args=None):

    args_proto = None
    if args:
        args_proto = args.AsPrimitiveProto()
    request = self.connector.BuildRequest(method, args_proto)
    prepped_request = request.prepare()
    return (request, prepped_request)
