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[Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 2, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:

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> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (Apologies if this has been already answered in the mailing list, dealing with a large backlog of mailing list emails).
> 
> With the current "nova" client (python-novaclient), there are Python bindings so you can write Python scripts that use the API without having to deal with the REST interface directly. 
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> Will the new unified CLI also provide Python bindings, so people can write Python scripts against the libraries that ship with the CLI (like python-novaclient)? Or is that out of scope?
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> The original Etherpad says this <http://etherpad.openstack.org/FolsumCLI>
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> does it include client API libraries?
> * not directly, abstract out common ancestor classes
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> If that's the case, where are the client API libraries going to live?
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> I think the plan right now is to have the new CLI use the existing client libraries.

Putting on my doc hat, writing the CLI should be a good opportunity to generate some documentation agains the existing client API libraries, since they are basically undocumented right now.


Take care,

Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com

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