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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 1:36 PM
> To: Ewan Mellor
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Glance API semantics when image sizes aren't
> known
> 
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Ewan Mellor
> <Ewan.Mellor at eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:45 PM
> >> To: Ewan Mellor
> >> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Glance API semantics when image sizes
> aren't
> >> known
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ewan Mellor
> >> <Ewan.Mellor at eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >> >> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com]
> >> >>
> >> >> The else: block is ONLY met when you are not using the Python
> glance
> >> >> client, the glance CLI tool, and are not setting either the
> >> >> Content-Length or X-Image-Meta-Size header. If you use the Python
> >> >> glance client or CLI tool, the image you are feeding to the
> client
> >> >> automatically does a seek/tell to determine the size of the image
> >> you
> >> >> are uploading.
> >> >
> >> > Or if you're using something that can't seek/tell, like a stream.
>  In
> >> > that case, you get neither a Content-Length nor an X-Image-Meta-
> Size.
> >> > Hence my question.
> >>
> >> And hence my answer ;)
> >
> > I don't think you answered the question.  My question was, what is
> the intended behavior when given a request that doesn't have either X-
> Image-Meta-Size or Content-Length set?
> 
> It depends. If you are just reserving/registering image metadata,
> Glance will happily store 0, Content-Length or X-Image-Meta-Size.
> 
> On upload, once an image file is successfully uploaded to the backend
> store, Glance will set the image's size to the number of bytes that
> the backend store reported that it wrote.
> 
> On uploading an image when Swift is the backing store, Glance does its
> best to upload the image file if no Content-Length or
> X-Image-Meta-Size is specified, but on the event of a failed Swift
> upload, the image size does not get set.

It also does not set the image size if the upload is successful.
image_size is returned unchanged from glance.store.swift.Store.add, so
0 is passed in, and passed out again.

So the question is whether this is a bug.  Are you expecting the
backend to return a correct image size if the upload is successful?

> > Because the docs imply that the size will be inferred from the body
> of the upload request, but that's not what is happening in the Swift
> backend.
> 
> Would it be possible to paste the code you are using to do the upload?

~ # cat test_glance.py
import sys
import glance.client

client = glance.client.Client('localhost', 9292, auth_tok="999888777666")
print client.add_image({}, sys.stdin)
~ # echo a | python26 ./test_glance.py
{u'status': u'active', u'name': None, u'deleted': False, u'container_format': None, u'created_at': u'2011-11-15T21:44:21', u'disk_format': None, u'updated_at': u'2011-11-15T21:44:22', u'id': 6, u'owner': u'Administrator', u'location': u'swift+http://root:password@localhost:5000/v1.0/glance/6', u'min_ram': 0, u'checksum': u'60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3', u'min_disk': 0, u'is_public': False, u'deleted_at': None, u'properties': {}, u'size': 0}

Note that size is returned as 0, not 1.

Cheers,

Ewan.