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As i mentioned cliff uses similar approach, extending app by means of entry
points, and written by same author.
So i think stevedore will be used in cliff, or maybe already used in newer
versions.
But apart of stevedore-like dynamic extensions - cliff provides modular
layers for cli app, it is kindof framework for wrtiting
cli applications.


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Andrey Danin <adanin at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Why not to use stevedore?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Igor Kalnitsky <ikalnitsky at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Actually, I'm not a fun of cliff, but I think it's a good solution to use
>> it in our fuel client.
>>
>> Here some pros:
>>
>> * pluggable design: we can encapsulate entire command logic in separate
>> plugin file
>> * builtin output formatters: we no need to implement various formatters
>> to represent received data
>> * interactive mode: cliff makes possible to provide a shell mode, just
>> like psql do
>>
>> Well, I vote to use cliff inside fuel client. Yeah, I know, we need to
>> rewrite a lot of code, but we
>> can do it step-by-step.
>>
>> - Igor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Dmitriy Shulyak <dshulyak at mirantis.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I am wondering what our story/vision for plugins in fuel client [1]?
>>>
>>> We can benefit from using cliff [2] as framework for fuel cli, apart
>>> from common code
>>> for building cli applications on top of argparse, it provides nice
>>> feature that allows to
>>> dynamicly add actions by means of entry points (stevedore-like).
>>>
>>> So we will be able to add new actions for fuel client simply by
>>> installing separate packages with correct entry points.
>>>
>>> Afaik stevedore is not used there, but i think it will be - cause of
>>> same author and maintainer.
>>>
>>> Do we need this? Maybe there is other options?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/stackforge/fuel-web/tree/master/fuelclient
>>> [2]  https://github.com/openstack/cliff
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