[openstack-dev] [oslo] Graduate cliutils.py into oslo.utils

Andrey Kurilin akurilin at mirantis.com
Wed Nov 11 08:54:08 UTC 2015


On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 11/10/2015 08:24 AM, Andrey Kurilin wrote:
> >>It was also proposed to reuse openstackclient or the openstack SDK.
> >
> > Openstack SDK was proposed a long time ago(it looks like it was several
> > cycles ago) as "alternative" for cliutils and apiclient, but I don't
> > know any client which use it yet. Maybe openstacksdk cores should try to
> > port any client as an example of how their project should be used.
>
> The SDK is targeted for end user applications, not service clients. I do
> get there was lots of confusion over this, but SDK is not the answer
> here for service clients.
>

Ok, thanks for explanation, but there is another question in my head: If
openstacksdk is not for python-*clients, why apiclient(which is actually
used by python-*clients) was marked as deprecated due to openstacksdk?

>
> The service clients are *always* going to have to exist in some form.
> Either as libraries that services produce, or by services deciding they
> don't want to consume the libraries of other clients and just put a
> targeted bit of rest code in their own tree to talk to other services.
>
>         -Sean
>
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Best regards,
Andrey Kurilin.
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