Usually when you want to add more functionality to a provider driver this means adding extension methods or arguments.
Extension methods are methods which aren't covered by the Libcloud base API and are usually specific to the provider. Extension methods and arguments can be recognized, because they are prefixed with "ex_". Here is an example of an extension method in the EC2 driver - https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/trunk/libcloud/compute/drivers/ec2.py#L505 . If you want to add a new provider, besides implementing the driver you also need to do these two things: - add a new Provider constant in libcloud.<api name>.types - add a provider to libcloud.<api name>.providers We have a bunch of drivers with extension methods (EC2, Rackspace, etc.) so you can browse the code for more example. If you have any more specific questions about the functionality you want to add, let us know. Tomaz On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Alex Amies <alexam...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the model and method for extending an existing provider or > registering your own provider? Looking at the doc and code I can figure > out how to use the existing providers but I want to add more function to my > cloud provider (IBM). I cannot see anything explaining that. > > Thanks > > Alex >
