Adding labs team. They've been trying to use fuel client internally with Pumphouse and had issues as well.
Nick & team - please share your feedback. Thanks, Roman On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Lukasz Oles <lo...@mirantis.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm researching if we can use Rally project for some Fuel testing. > It's part of 100-nodes blueprint[1]. > To write some Rally scenario I used our Fuelclient "library". > In it's current state it's really painful to use and it's not usable > as production tool. > > Here is the list of the biggest issues: > > 1. If API returns code other than 20x it exits. Literally it calls > sys.exit(). It should just rise Exception. > 2. Using API Client as a Singleton. In theory we can have more than > one connection, but all new objects will use default connection. > 3. Can not use keystone token. It requires user and password. > Server address and all credentials can be given via config file or > environment variables. There is no way to set it during client > initialization. > > All this issues show that library was designed only with CLI in mind. > Especially issue nr 1. > Now I know why ostf doesn't use fuelcient, why Rally wrote their own > client. And I can bet that MOX team is also using their own version. > > I'm aware of Fuelclient refactoring blueprint[1] I reviewed it and > gave +1 to most of the reviews. Unfortunately it focuses on CLI usage. > Move to Cliff is very good idea, > but for library it actually makes things worse [2] like moving data > validation to CLI or initializing object using single dictionary > instead of normal arguments. > > I think instead of focusing on CLI usage we should focus on a library > part. To make it easier to use by other programs. After that we can > focus on CLI. It's very important now when we are planning to support > 100 nodes and more in future because more and more users will start > use Fuel via API instead of UI. > > What do you think about this? > > Regards, > > [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/refactoring-for-fuelclient > [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/117294/ > > > > > Regards, > > -- > Łukasz Oleś > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fuel-dev > Post to : fuel-dev@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fuel-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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