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On 02/21/2013 11:52 AM, Attila Fazekas wrote:
> Probably we can came up with a solution, to move both xml and json clients to the same file (per remote service) and still keep it small.
> We should use the rest API's key naming in our code even, even if it would violate, the python variable naming conventions.

Sure on a single file. Not sure why we'd want to violate our variable
naming conventions, though. -1 on that.

> The rest_clients /service proxies/ does lazy authentication, so if they not used, they does not have significant cost.
> We are now creating "demo" users too frequently, probably we just need to create users just per process, and we just had get a token (excluding keystone test) only once  (unless it expires, but usually they have 24h lifetime).
> The current behavior spend measurable additional unnecessary time in chatting with keystone.  

100% agreed.

> There is lot of code duplication and other anomalies in our base test classes.
> First, we should have 4 more generic base classes 
> - One for both XML/JSON
> - One for pythton-client libs

We already have this...

https://github.com/openstack/tempest/blob/master/tempest/test.py

> - One for AWS/Boto
> - One for CLI

Sure, ok, if not already done...

> Both of them, should cover all functionality regardless to the remote service type. 
> 
> Slowly we should make them more similar to each other....
> 
> Most of the whitebox features, should go to some utils like place.

++

-jay