Open Stack

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 02/24/2015 03:28 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> > On Feb 24, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
> >
> >>> IMHO the CLI should have an option to returned raw JSON back instead of
> >>> pretty tabled results as well.
> >>
> >> Um... isn't that just the API calls?
> >>
> >> I'm not sure creating a 3rd functional surface is really the answer
> >> here, because we still need to actually test the CLI / pretty table
> output.
> >
> > The python-openstacksdk project was originally envisioned to wrap the
> API calls and return usable Python objects. The nova client CLI (or any
> other CLI, for that matter) would then just provide the command line input
> parsing and output presentation. It's been a while since I was involved
> with that project, but it seems that decoupling the command line interface
> from the Python API wrapper would make testing much, much easier.
>
> Right, I think to some degree novaclient is legacy code, and we should
> focus on specific regressions and bugs without doing to much code change.
>
> The future should be more focussed on openstacksdk and openstackclient.
>

While I don't disagree with this, it seems like we have been waiting for
openstackclient and openstacksdk for a while now, do we even have a
timeline for moving off of novaclient?


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