Open Stack

On 07/26/2015 01:15 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> So, the Kilo release notes say:
>
>      nova-manage migrate-flavor-data
>
> But nova-manage says:
>
>      nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data
>
> But that says:
>
>      Missing arguments: max_number
>
> And the help says:
>
>      usage: nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data [-h]
>        [--max-number <number>]
>
> Which indicates that --max-number is optional, but whatever, so you
> try:
>
>      nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data --max-number 100
>
> And that says:
>
>      Missing arguments: max_number
>
> So just for kicks you try:
>
>      nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data --max_number 100
>
> And that says:
>
>      nova-manage: error: unrecognized arguments: --max_number
>
> So finally you try:
>
>      nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data 100
>
> And holy poorly implement client, Batman, it works.

LOL. Well, the important thing is that the thing eventually worked. ;P

In all seriousness, though, yeah, the nova-manage CLI tool is entirely 
different from the main python-novaclient CLI tool. It's not been a 
priority whatsoever to clean it up, but I think it would be some pretty 
low-hanging fruit to make the CLI consistent with the design of, say, 
python-openstackclient...

Perhaps something we should develop a backlog spec for.

Best,
-jay