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

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Mon Nov 16 16:16:16 UTC 2015


Excerpts from Kekane, Abhishek's message of 2015-11-16 07:33:48 +0000:
> Hi,
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> As apiclient is now removed from oslo-incubator, to proceed with request-id spec [1] I have two options in mind,
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> 1.       Use keystoneauth1 + cliff in all python-clients (add request-id support in cliff library)

cliff is being used outside of OpenStack, and is not at all related to
REST API access, so I don't think that's the right place.

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> 2.       apiclient code is available in all python-*clients, modify this code in individual clients and add support to return request-id.

Yes, I think that makes sense.

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> Please let me know your opinion on the same.
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> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/156508/
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> Thanks & Regards,
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> Abhishek Kekane
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> > On Nov 11, 2015, at 3:54 AM, Andrey Kurilin <akurilin at mirantis.com<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev>> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev> <mailto:sean at dague.net<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev>>> wrote:
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> > On 11/10/2015 08:24 AM, Andrey Kurilin wrote:
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> > >>It was also proposed to reuse openstackclient or the openstack SDK.
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> > > Openstack SDK was proposed a long time ago(it looks like it was several
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> > > cycles ago) as "alternative" for cliutils and apiclient, but I don't
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> > > know any client which use it yet. Maybe openstacksdk cores should try to
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> > > port any client as an example of how their project should be used.
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> > The SDK is targeted for end user applications, not service clients. I do
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> > get there was lots of confusion over this, but SDK is not the answer
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> > here for service clients.
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> > 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?
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> The Oslo team wanted to deprecate the API client code because it wasn't being maintained. We thought at the time we did so that the SDK would replace the clients, but discussions since that time have changed direction.
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> > The service clients are *always* going to have to exist in some form.
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> > Either as libraries that services produce, or by services deciding they
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> > don't want to consume the libraries of other clients and just put a
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> > targeted bit of rest code in their own tree to talk to other services.
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> >         -Sean
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