[openstack-dev] [Swift][swiftclient][horizon] Improve UX by enabling HTTP headers configuration in UI and CLI

John Dickinson me at not.mn
Fri Feb 10 15:32:54 UTC 2017



On 10 Feb 2017, at 7:07, Denis Makogon wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I've been developing Swift middleware that depends on specific HTTP headers
> and figured out that there's only one way to specify them on client side -
> only in programmatically i can add HTTP headers to each Swift HTTP API
> method (CLI and dashboard are not supporting HTTP headers configuration,
> except by default enabled cases like "copy" middleware because swiftclient
> defines in as separate API method).
>
> My point here is, as developer, i don't have OpenStack-aligned way to
> examine HTTP headers-dependent middleware without hacking into both
> swiftclient and dashboard what makes me fall back to cURL that brings a lot
> overhead while working with Swift.
>
> So, is there any interest in having such thing in swiftclient and,
> subsequently, in dashboard?
> If yes, let me know (it shouldn't be that complicated because at
> swiftclient python API level we already capable to send HTTP headers).

Good news! python-swiftclient already supports sending arbitrary headers via the CLI with the -H/--header (in addition to the SDK, as you mentioned). IIRC this is *not* yet supported in the combined openstack client, but I think it would be a great addition.

--John


>
> Kind regards,
> Denis Makogon
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