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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com>wrote:

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> On May 2, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com
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>> (Apologies if this has been already answered in the mailing list, dealing
>> with a large backlog of mailing list emails).
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>> With the current "nova" client (python-novaclient), there are Python
>> bindings so you can write Python scripts that use the API without having to
>> deal with the REST interface directly.
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>> Will the new unified CLI also provide Python bindings, so people can
>> write Python scripts against the libraries that ship with the CLI (like
>> python-novaclient)? Or is that out of scope?
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>> The original Etherpad says this <http://etherpad.openstack.org/FolsumCLI>
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>> does it include client API libraries?
>> * not directly, abstract out common ancestor classes
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>> If that's the case, where are the client API libraries going to live?
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> I think the plan right now is to have the new CLI use the existing client
> libraries.
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> Putting on my doc hat, writing the CLI should be a good opportunity to
> generate some documentation agains the existing client API libraries, since
> they are basically undocumented right now.
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