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["Brebner, Gavin" <gavin.brebner@xxxxxx>]

David - my take is that we are doing QA on behalf of eventual customers; as such we cannot
select any one API library for particular attention unless we are sure all customers
will do the same. It's probably worth having a "blessed" library to guide customers to,
and for QA to put significant effort on it, but we need to cover any way in which a 
customer can legitimately access Nova, and need to work with the wider community to make
any particular choice more than just something that's convenient for QA :) For functional/stress
tests it's probably not such a bit deal as for API testing, but there are still enough 
differences for me to be unhappy just to use one library.

My team have started largely using novaclient and euca2ools, but we also have folks looking
into Java and Ruby libraries as we have customers using them, and also "raw" http calls - largely
for API testing. I'd be happy to see python-novaclient become the "obvious" library for Nova customers 
to use - but in the meantime I need to push my team to check out other libraries also.

This sound reasonable to folks ? Is anyone else seeing significant use of anything other than
novaclient/euca2ools by customers ? 

	Gavin 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-qa-team-bounces+gavin.brebner=hp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openstack-qa-team-bounces+gavin.brebner=hp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of David Kranz
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 5:11 PM
> To: openstack-qa-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Openstack-qa-team] Python wrappers for OpenStack APIs
> 
> I have been implementing some functional stress tests for nova.  It
> seems that there are various pieces of Python code that have been
> written to call the HTTP apis including novaclient as well as code that
> is part of various test suites. There are also ueca-tools. It seems like
> it would be useful to have a "standard" set of test driver code going
> forward. Does any one have any comments about this, or a suggestion
> about which client API code would be best to use?
> 
>   -David
> 
> 
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