[Openstack-docs] Automated CLI Reference

Diane Fleming diane.fleming at RACKSPACE.COM
Tue Jan 21 14:28:32 UTC 2014


Yes! That's the ticket.  Thanks Andreas.     

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> On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:20 AM, "Andreas Jaeger" <aj at suse.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/20/2014 11:06 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org
>> <mailto:shaunm at gnome.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>    To what extent could this reuse code from the automated config
>>    reference? Is it also a matter of importing tons of stuff then
>>    introspecting the modules?
>> 
>> 
>> My original thinking was to reuse the bash completion script somehow... 
>> https://raw.github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/master/tools/nova.bash_completion
>> 
>> Possible?
> 
> Brilliant idea! That should be easily doable.
> 
> The question is what do we want.
> 
> Right now, we show just the generic information, e.g.
> http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/nova_commands.html
> 
> Using bash-complete, we could also iterator over the subcommands and
> document all the nova subcommands with something like below:
> 
> $ nova flavor-access-list
> usage: nova flavor-access-list [--flavor <flavor>] [--tenant <tenant_id>]
> 
> Print access information about the given flavor.
> 
> Optional arguments:
>  --flavor <flavor>     Filter results by flavor name or ID.
>  --tenant <tenant_id>  Filter results by tenant ID.
> 
> 
> $ nova host-meta
> usage: nova host-meta <host> <action> <key=value> [<key=value> ...]
> 
> Set or Delete metadata on all instances of a host.
> 
> Positional arguments:
>  <host>       Name of host.
>  <action>     Actions: 'set' or 'delete'
>  <key=value>  Metadata to set or delete (only key is necessary on delete)
> 
> 
> I can give it a shot,
> 
> Andreas
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