[openstack-dev] Questions regarding image "location" and glanceclient behaviour ...
Fei Long Wang
feilong at catalyst.net.nz
Thu Feb 18 03:47:40 UTC 2016
Glance v2 doesn't support 'location' anymore, now there are multi
locations for image in V2. You can use 'glance location-add' after
create the the image by 'glance image-create --file xxx'
On 18/02/16 15:51, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
> Hey guys, any news about this?
>
> I want to use Glance v2 but, without --location that points to a URL
> and, for me, without it, it is impossible to use it (v2).
>
> So, any plans to bring back --location, I want to use v2 like this:
>
> --
> glance image-create --location
> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04.3/release/ubuntu-14.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
> --name "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS - Trusty Tahr - 64-bit - Cloud Based Image"
> --visibility public --container-format bare --disk-format qcow2
> --
>
> But, "--location" isn't recognized anymore!
>
> Thanks!
> Thiago
>
>
> On 22 January 2014 at 14:30, Mark Washenberger
> <mark.washenberger at markwash.net
> <mailto:mark.washenberger at markwash.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Public Mail
> <kpublicmail at gmail.com <mailto:kpublicmail at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have two questions ...
>
> 1) Glance v1 APIs can take a --location argument when
> creating an image
> but v2 APIs can't - bug or feature? (Details below)
>
>
> I'd call that a missing feature. I think we probably need a glance
> image-location-add command somewhere in the client. But fair
> warning, this is typically a role-restricted operation.
>
>
>
> 2) How should glanceclient (v2 commands) handle reserved
> attributes?
> a) status quo: (Apparently) let the user set them but
> the server
> will return "attribute is reserved" error. Pros:
> No missing
> functionality, no damage done. Cons: Bad usability.
> b) hard-code list of reserved attributes in client and
> don't expose
> them to the user.
> Pros: quick to implement.
> Cons: Need to track reserved attributes in server
> implementation.
> c) get-reserved words from schema downloaded from
> server (and don't
> expose them to the user).
> Pros: Don't need to track server implmentation.
> Cons: Complex - reserved words can vary from
> command to
> command.
>
> I personally favor (b) on the grounds that a client
> implementation
> needs to closely understand server behaviour anyway so
> the sync-ing
> of reserved attributes shouldn't be a big problem
> (*provided* the
> list of reserved attributes is made available in the
> reference
> documentation which doesn't seem to be the case currently).
>
>
>
> We are in a bit of a bind with schemas--what's needed is schema
> resources to represent each request and response, not just each
> resource. Because, obviously, the things you can PATCH and POST
> are necessarily different than the things you can GET in any
> service api. However, it is not clear to me how we get from one
> schema per resource to one schema per request and response in a
> backwards compatible way. So b) might be the only way to go.
>
>
>
>
> So what does everybody think?
>
> <details>
> When using glance client's v1 interface I can image-create an
> image and
> specify the image file's location via the --location parameter.
> Alternatively I can image-create an empty image and then
> image-update the
> image's location to some url.
>
> However, when using the client's v2 commands I can neither
> image-create the
> file using the --location parameter, nor image-update the file
> later.
>
> When using image-create with --location, the client gives the
> following
> error (printed by warlock):
>
> Unable to set 'locations' to
> '[u'http://192.168.1.111/foo/bar'
> <http://192.168.1.111/foo/bar%27>]'
>
> This is because the schema dictates that the location should
> be an object
> of the form [{"url": "string", "metadata": object}, ...] but
> there is no
> way to specify such an object from the command line - I cannot
> specify a
> string like '{"url": "192.168.1.111/foo/bar
> <http://192.168.1.111/foo/bar>", "metadata": {}}' for there is
> no conversion from command line strings to python dicts nor is
> there any
> conversion from a simple URL string to a suitable location object.
>
> If I modify glanceclient.v2.images.Controller.create to
> convert the
> locations parameter from a URL string to the desired object
> then the
> request goes through to the glance server where it fails with
> a 403 error
> (Attribute 'locations' is reserved).
>
> So is this discrepancy between V1 & V2 deliberate (a feature
> :)) or is it a
> bug?
> </details>
>
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