Hello all, Here is just a quick update.
I have created a dummy driver and fixed some other things in the current implementation - https://github.com/Kami/libcloud/commits/storage_api <https://github.com/Kami/libcloud/commits/storage_api>Feedback is more than welcome. I still haven't fully decided if the CDN functionality should be part of the base API or not. I'm leading more on the side that it should be, since it's a pretty important functionality even thought not all the storage providers currently support it. Thanks, Tomaz On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@cloudkick.com> wrote: > I have worked on the Storage API a bit today and yesterday and mostly got a > "prototype" working - https://github.com/Kami/libcloud/commits/storage_api > . > > The code is far from finished, but imo it's a good start and it should be a > lot easier to talk about it when we have at least a partial implementation > here. > > The important files are: > > - Base class - http://s.apache.org/wP > - Reference implementation and CloudFiles Driver - > http://s.apache.org/7f0<https://github.com/Kami/libcloud/blob/170ebfef05d1b6596bdb0c580e28d86922ec94ff/libcloud/storage/drivers/cloudfiles.py> > - Exceptions, etc. - http://s.apache.org/C6H > > Since I have been working on a reference implementation for the CloudFiles > driver, it's possible that some of the methods / arguments are biased > towards it and should be modified / removed. > > So, like I have said, there are still a lot of things to do: > - Better error handling and making some parts of the code more robust > - RawResponse should really be named RawRequest / Request and a better part > of the codes which deals with the requests / response refactored - > http://s.apache.org/Tp6 > - Refactoring and renaming some parts of the code > - Moving utility functions to a separate module (libcloud/util.py?) > - Actually separating the library into two parts - compute & storage (this > will require a lot of moving around and changes so I have planned to do this > on the end) > - DummyDriver (will work on this tomorrow) > - demo, examples > - update documentation > - ... > > I will push the code to a separate branch to the libcloud repository > tomorrow so others can work on it as well. > > Thanks, > Tomaz > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Grig Gheorghiu > <grig.gheorg...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I just stumbled on this blog post which talks about a common for cloud >> data storage and management: CDMI. Not sure how legit this all is, but >> the guy who wrote the blog post works for NetApp. >> >> >> http://intotheinfrastructure.blogspot.com/2009/12/reference-architecture-for-cloud.html >> >> If this turns out to have industry support (and the SNIA member >> directory does have a lot of big hitters >> http://www.snia.org/member_com/member_directory/), then maybe >> libcloud's storage layer should adhere to the CDMI interface -- or at >> least provide an API for CDMI-compliant cloud storage solutions? >> >> Grig >> >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Sengor <seng...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Depreciation warnings for starters, and it'd not be hard to port >> > existing code to a new libcloud version with proper upgrade >> > guidelines. >> > >> > It's probably as simple as %s/import\ libcloud/import\ libcloud.compute/ >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@cloudkick.com> >> wrote: >> >> Yeah, trying to still keep the old imports to work and just throwing a >> >> DeprecationWarning in the next few versions sounds ok. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Paul Querna <p...@querna.org> wrote: >> >> >> >>> One question not posed is the module name. >> >>> >> >>> ie, should it all be inside libcloud.storage? >> >>> >> >>> This would imply moving all our existing code to libcloud.compute, >> >>> which is kinda a pain for upgrades, but I'm kinda a fan of maybe doing >> >>> it for 0.5, but having the old imports work too for a few versions. >> >>> >> >>> Thoughts? >> >>> >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> >> >>> Paul >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@cloudkick.com> >> wrote: >> >>> > Hello all, >> >>> > >> >>> > I have posted a short proposal / ideas for the object storage API on >> the >> >>> > libcloud wiki - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/LibcloudStorageAPI >> >>> > >> >>> > Please post your feedback, opinions and ideas how to improve it. >> >>> > >> >>> > I think the next step after deciding how the API should look like >> (at >> >>> least >> >>> > approximately) should be >> >>> > implementing the base API and creating a reference driver and then >> we can >> >>> > move on from there :-) >> >>> > >> >>> > - Tomaz >> >>> > >> >>> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > sengork >> > >> > >
