On Aug 9, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Pedro Roque Marques <pedro.r.marq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 2, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Donal Lafferty >> <donal.laffe...@citrix.com>wrote: >> >>> I needed a different configuration than DevCloud provided, so I turned to >>> CloudMonkey to automate setup of my test environment. >>> >>> This led to a blog on automating with CloudMonkey at >>> http://dlafferty.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/using-cloudmonkey-to-automate.html >>> >>> >> Nice. >> >> >>> What I forgot to mention is that automation would be a lot simpler if we >>> were to do the following: >>> >>> 1. Update Apache CloudStack logging to provide API calls in a tidy >>> format that can be fed directly. E.g. POST parameters are not logged, GET >>> parameters are URL encoded. >>> >>> 2. Update CloudMonkey to allow username / password authentication >>> >> >> +1, send patch :) > > I use following: > cloudauth.py retrieves a key pair... > cloudclient.py is a simple wrapper around cloudmonkey so that we can use it > directly from python scripts and get json replies. > > usage example: > def createZone(client): > try: > response = client.request('listZones') > if response['listzonesresponse']: > return response['listzonesresponse']['zone'][0]['id'] > > response = client.request('createZone', > {'name': 'default', > 'networktype': 'Advanced', > 'domain': 'ROOT', > 'dns1': PARAMS['external_dns'], > 'internaldns1': PARAMS['internal_dns']}) > return response['createzoneresponse']['zone']['id'] > > except Exception as e: > print 'Error while creating a zone:' > print e > raise > > > > <cloudclient.py><cloudauth.py> Pretty cool, Maybe in your cloudauth.py you can use the requests module. That way there is no need to use popen to call curl http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ -sebastien
