> On Nov 11, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Dean Troyer <dtro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Clayton Coleman <ccole...@redhat.com> >> wrote: >> The implication I heard from the session is the command infrastructure and >> client code have or will have a well defined interface from the framework, >> although I haven't looked through current state enough to say that's totally >> true today. If that interface is in place we certainly would be better >> isolated from upstream. > > OSC has a very simple plugin mechanism that is little more than pre-defined > entry point groups that are scanned for additional commands. That works but > doesn't properly leverage the desirable common bits, such as auth, that are > available to the built-in clients. Enhancing this has not been a high > priority before now but needs to be done. > >> I guess it depends where we want to spend our focus as well - do we write >> something that in the long run we'd end up porting, or benefit from the work >> the common client is doing (doc, common patterns, keystone auth work with >> x509 and potentially Kerberos, bash completion, etc) as well as help them >> out. > > I'd suggest you focus on putting together a clean and well-defined library > API that implements your REST API. Consider that work is going on to > refactor the implementation of these layers in existing clients and that some > of the library APIs will be changing. Specifically, the first of these > efforts is a much-needed cleanup of the Identity Auth interfaces and the > migration of existing clients to use that rather than their own embedded auth. > > Please don't just copy one of the existing clients, down that path lies > madness.
I know in the session a "generic" API client lib was mentioned, is that in a branch somewhere to highlight the things that were common across a lot of API libs? Or knowing your opinion of the "best" client to copy. :) > > dt > > -- > > Dean Troyer > dtro...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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