Open Stack

Did you see:

https://github.com/openstack/python-openstackclient

Also, keep in mind that some of the ways the existing Glance client (and 
Swift client FTM) work is due to lack of support in httplib2 for 
chunked-transfer encoding.

Best,
-jay

On 06/19/2012 12:43 PM, Alexey Ababilov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Unfortunately, nova, keystone, and glance clients are very inconsistent.
> A lot of code is copied between all these clients instead of moving it
> to a common library. The code was edited without synchronization between
> clients, so, they have different behaviour:
>
>   * all client constructors use different parameters (api_key in nova or
>     password in keystone and so on);
>   * keystoneclient authenticates immediately in __init__, while
>     novaclient does in lazily during first method call;
>   * {keystone,nova}client can manage service catalogs and accept
>     keystone's auth URI while glanceclient allows endpoints only;
>   * keystoneclient can support authorization with an unscoped token but
>     novaclient doesn't;
>   * novaclient uses class composition while keystoneclient uses inheritance.
>
> I have developed a library to unify current clients. The library can be
> used as-is, but it would be better if openstack clients dropped their
> common code (base.py, exceptions.py and so on) and just began to import
> common code.
>
> Here is an example of using unified clients.
>
> from openstackclient_base import patch_clients
> from openstackclient_base.client import HttpClient
> http_client = HttpClient(username="...", password="...", tenant_name="...", auth_uri="...")
>
> from openstackclient_base.nova.client import ComputeClient
> print ComputeClient(http_client).servers.list()
>
> from openstackclient_base.keystone.client import IdentityPublicClient
> print IdentityPublicClient(http_client).tenants.list()
>
>
>
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