[openstack-dev] [qa] Lack of consistency in returning response from tempest clients

Andrea Frittoli andrea.frittoli at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 06:04:33 UTC 2014


+1

keeping the body as a ~dict will help with all existing asserts comparing
dicts in tests.

Andrea
On 30 Aug 2014 06:45, "Christopher Yeoh" <cbkyeoh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:13:39 -0400
> David Kranz <dkranz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On 08/29/2014 10:56 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> > > On 08/29/2014 10:19 AM, David Kranz wrote:
> > >> While reviewing patches for moving response checking to the
> > >> clients, I noticed that there are places where client methods do
> > >> not return any value. This is usually, but not always, a delete
> > >> method. IMO, every rest client method should return at least the
> > >> response. Some services return just the response for delete
> > >> methods and others return (resp, body). Does any one object to
> > >> cleaning this up by just making all client methods return resp,
> > >> body? This is mostly a change to the clients. There were only a
> > >> few places where a non-delete  method was returning just a body
> > >> that was used in test code.
> > > Yair and I were discussing this yesterday. As the response
> > > correctness checking is happening deeper in the code (and you are
> > > seeing more and more people assigning the response object to _ ) my
> > > feeling is Tempest clients should probably return a body obj that's
> > > basically.
> > >
> > > class ResponseBody(dict):
> > >      def __init__(self, body={}, resp=None):
> > >          self.update(body)
> > >     self.resp = resp
> > >
> > > Then all the clients would have single return values, the body
> > > would be the default thing you were accessing (which is usually
> > > what you want), and the response object is accessible if needed to
> > > examine headers.
> > >
> > >     -Sean
> > >
> > Heh. I agree with that and it is along a similar line to what I
> > proposed here https://review.openstack.org/#/c/106916/ but using a
> > dict rather than an attribute dict. I did not propose this since it
> > is such a big change. All the test code would have to be changed to
> > remove the resp or _ that is now receiving the response. But I think
> > we should do this before the client code is moved to tempest-lib.
>
> +1. this would be a nice cleanup.
>
> Chris
>
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