[openstack-dev] [glance] Image client service tools
Flavio Percoco
flavio at redhat.com
Mon Jun 3 07:29:24 UTC 2013
On 02/06/13 20:27 +0200, Ghe Rivero wrote:
>
> Hi Mark and all,
> Â Â Â as you pointed out, the idea is to get rid of all the wrappers
> in nova/cinder and move the features onto glanceclient. Glanceclient is
> more http oriented, while these wrappers help you to use glanceclient
> on an upper level (using a context for connection auth, you get a dict
> for the image metadata, instead of a json on a http header...).
> So my plan is:
> 1/ move those features to glanceclient,
> 2/ Use this new glanceclient on ironic as a proof of concept.
> 3/ Remove the wrappers on nova and cinder and use glanceclient directly
> 4/ Start working on glanceclient for new features, improvements once
> the base code is the same on all the projects.
> Being this a big change, although most of the code should be the same,
> time is important, so my idea is to have 1 and 2 on a couple of weeks,
> and 3 before havana-2.
>
Hey,
Not sure about the timing but the idea sounds good overall.
Most of this things seem to exist in the client already, I guess
you'll need to create just a wrapper to ease its use as a library.
Cheers,
FF
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