[openstack-dev] [Neutron][API Doc] Easy way to generate JSON output for doc?

Paul Michali pcm at cisco.com
Thu Aug 1 12:24:13 UTC 2013


Yes that will! Copying and pasting the public key is difficult.

Will try this out.

Regards.

PCM (Paul Michali)

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On Aug 1, 2013, at 2:43 AM, Morgan Fainberg <m at metacloud.com> wrote:

> Paul,
> 
> Depending on what version of keystone you are utilizing there are a couple options to use the UUID token format (instead of PKI). 
> 
> Very recent (current master) of keystone uses a pluggable provider system. To set the provider to uuid, in the [token] section set the option:
> provider=keystone.token.providers.uuid.Provider
> 
> In older versions I believe the option (still in the [token] section) is:
> 
> token_format=UUID
> 
> I hope this info helps you out some.
> 
> Cheers,
> Morgan Fainberg
> 
> Sent from my iPhone (please excuse the brevity) 
> 
>  31/07/2013, Paul Michali :
> Yeah I was playing with that, however I'm having an issue with authentication…
> 
> If I do a request to keystone to get the auth ID, I get a huge key, which I have to try to paste into a subsequent request to neutron.
> 
> Is there a way to force this to use the old style (small) auth ID, no auth, or username/password for auth on the requests?
> 
> I've been playing with using the CLI and --verbose, and then trying to extract the RESP:… output and run through JSON. A bit jacky, but it sorta works.
> 
> 
> PCM (Paul Michali)
> 
> Contact info for Cisco users http://twiki.cisco.com/Main/pcm
> 
> 
> On Jul 31, 2013, at 7:00 PM, "Mellquist, Peter" <peter.mellquist at hp.com> wrote:
> 
>> Paul,
>> There are a few ways of doing this but I have used curl then pipe the results through a python JSON pretty print tool. This formats the JSON for easily dropping into API docs.
>>  
>> curl ( some Openstack request with JSON output )    | python –mjson.tool
>>  
>> Hope this helps,
>> Peter.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> From: Paul Michali [mailto:pcm at cisco.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:41 PM
>> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
>> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][API Doc] Easy way to generate JSON output for doc?
>>  
>> Hi!
>>  
>> I'm writing API doc pages for VPNaaS and was wondering if there are any tools/scripts to make it easy to generate the needed JSON result output for various operations?
>>  
>> It looks like I can do the neutron command with --verbose to get unformatted JSON output. Should I do that and then reformat the output (or is there way to do that easier)?
>>  
>> I did try to use json.loads() on the RESP: output, but it threw an ValueError "Expecting property name: line 1 column 1 (char 1)"
>>  
>> Ideas?
>>  
>> PCM (Paul Mi
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