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openstacksdk/doc/source/users/index.rst
Monty Taylor 4bad718783 Rework config and rest layers
This is a large and invasive change to the underlying guts. Most casual
use should not notice a difference, but advanced users, especially those
using the Profile or Authenticator interfaces or making use of pluggable
providers will be broken.

The overall intent is to align directly on top of the mechanisms that
came from os-client-config for config and to use keystoneauth1's Adapter
interface to make use of the canonical implementations of such things as
service and version discovery. The end goal is that openstacksdk
provides the REST interaction layer for python-openstackclient, shade,
Ansible and nodepool.

Replace profile with openstack.config

os-client-config is used by shade and python-openstackclient to read
and process configuration. openstacksdk also can use the
os-client-config interface, but translates it internally into the
Profile object. As os-client-config has been injested into
openstack.config, remove Profile and just use the config classes.

Make proxy subclass of adapter

This gives every service a generic passthrough for REST calls, which
means we can map unknown service-type values to a generic proxy.

Strip endpoint_filter

We're passing Adapters around, not sessions. Doing so means that
self.service and endpoint_filter have become unnecessary.

Rename _Request.uri to _Request.url

This is a stepping-stone to replacing _Request with requests.Request and
using requests.Session.prepare_request inside of _prepare_request.

Rename service proxy instances to match their official service-type.

Aliases are kept for the old versions, but make the canonical versions
match the official name.

Rename bare_metal to baremetal
Rename cluster to clustering
Rename block_store to block_storage
Rename telemetry to meter

Create generic proxies for all services in STA

Every service listed in service types authority is an OpenStack service.
Even if we don't know about it in SDK, we should at the very least have
a low-level Adapter for it so that people can use REST calls while
waiting on the SDK to add higher-level constructs.

The pypy jobs are happily green. Run them as voting rather than
non-voting.

Add syntatic sugar alias for making connections

Typing:

  import openstack.connection
  conn = openstack.connection.Connection(cloud='example')

is annoying. This allows:

  import openstack
  conn = openstack.connect(cloud='example')

Use task_manager and Adapter from shade

As a stepping-stone towards shade and sdk codepaths being rationalized,
we need to get SDK using the Adapter from shade that submits requests
into the TaskManager. For normal operation this is a passthrough/no-op
sort of thing, but it's essential for high-volume consumers such as
nodepool.

This exposes a bunch of places in tests where we're mocking a bit too
deeply. We should go back through and fix all of those via
requests_mock, but that's WAY too much for today.

This was a 'for later' task, but it turns out that the move to Adapter
was causing exceptions to be thrown that were not the exceptions that
were intended to be caught in the SDK layer, which was causing
functional tests of things like GET operations to fail. So it became a
today task.

Change-Id: I7b46e263a76d84573bdfbbece57b1048764ed939
2017-11-15 11:46:50 -06:00

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Getting started with the OpenStack SDK
======================================
For a listing of terms used throughout the SDK, including the names of
projects and services supported by it, see the :doc:`glossary <../glossary>`.
Installation
------------
The OpenStack SDK is available on
`PyPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openstacksdk>`_ under the name
**openstacksdk**. To install it, use ``pip``::
$ pip install openstacksdk
.. _user_guides:
User Guides
-----------
These guides walk you through how to make use of the libraries we provide
to work with each OpenStack service. If you're looking for a cookbook
approach, this is where you'll want to begin.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Connect to an OpenStack Cloud <guides/connect>
Connect to an OpenStack Cloud Using a Config File <guides/connect_from_config>
Logging <guides/logging>
Baremetal <guides/baremetal>
Block Storage <guides/block_storage>
Clustering <guides/clustering>
Compute <guides/compute>
Database <guides/database>
Identity <guides/identity>
Image <guides/image>
Key Manager <guides/key_manager>
Message <guides/message>
Meter <guides/meter>
Network <guides/network>
Object Store <guides/object_store>
Orchestration <guides/orchestration>
API Documentation
-----------------
Service APIs are exposed through a two-layered approach. The classes
exposed through our *Connection* interface are the place to start if you're
an application developer consuming an OpenStack cloud. The *Resource*
interface is the layer upon which the *Connection* is built, with
*Connection* methods accepting and returning *Resource* objects.
Connection Interface
********************
A *Connection* instance maintains your cloud config, session and authentication
information providing you with a set of higher-level interfaces to work with
OpenStack services.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
connection
Once you have a *Connection* instance, the following services may be exposed
to you. The combination of your ``CloudConfig`` and the catalog of the cloud
in question control which services are exposed, but listed below are the ones
provided by the SDK.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Baremetal <proxies/baremetal>
Block Storage <proxies/block_storage>
Clustering <proxies/clustering>
Compute <proxies/compute>
Database <proxies/database>
Identity v2 <proxies/identity_v2>
Identity v3 <proxies/identity_v3>
Image v1 <proxies/image_v1>
Image v2 <proxies/image_v2>
Key Manager <proxies/key_manager>
Load Balancer <proxies/load_balancer_v2>
Message v1 <proxies/message_v1>
Message v2 <proxies/message_v2>
Network <proxies/network>
Meter <proxies/meter>
Metric <proxies/metric>
Object Store <proxies/object_store>
Orchestration <proxies/orchestration>
Workflow <proxies/workflow>
Resource Interface
******************
The *Resource* layer is a lower-level interface to communicate with OpenStack
services. While the classes exposed by the *Connection* build a convenience
layer on top of this, *Resources* can be used directly. However, the most
common usage of this layer is in receiving an object from a class in the
*Connection* layer, modifying it, and sending it back into the *Connection*
layer, such as to update a resource on the server.
The following services have exposed *Resource* classes.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Baremetal <resources/baremetal/index>
Block Storage <resources/block_storage/index>
Clustering <resources/clustering/index>
Compute <resources/compute/index>
Database <resources/database/index>
Identity <resources/identity/index>
Image <resources/image/index>
Key Management <resources/key_manager/index>
Load Balancer <resources/load_balancer/index>
Meter <resources/meter/index>
Metric <resources/metric/index>
Network <resources/network/index>
Orchestration <resources/orchestration/index>
Object Store <resources/object_store/index>
Workflow <resources/workflow/index>
Low-Level Classes
*****************
The following classes are not commonly used by application developers,
but are used to construct applications to talk to OpenStack APIs. Typically
these parts are managed through the `Connection Interface`_, but their use
can be customized.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
resource
resource2
service_filter
utils