python-searchlightclient 2.0.1

Install the client from PyPI

The program python-searchlightclient package is published on PyPI and so can be installed using the pip tool, which will manage installing all python dependencies:

$ pip install python-searchlightclient

Setup the client from source

• Clone repository for python-searchlightclient:

  $ git clone https://opendev.org/openstack/python-searchlightclient.git
  $ cd python-searchlightclient

• Setup a virtualenv

$ tox -evenv --notest

Activate the virtual environment whenever you want to work in it. All further commands in this section should be run with the venv active:

$ source .tox/venv/bin/activate

• Install Searchlightclient and its dependencies:

  (venv) $ python setup.py develop

Command-line API

Set Keystone environment variables to execute CLI commands against searchlight.

• To execute CLI commands:

  $ export OS_USERNAME=<user>
  $ export OS_PASSWORD=<password>
  $ export OS_TENANT_NAME=<project>
  $ export OS_AUTH_URL='http://localhost:5000/v2.0/'

$ openstack
(openstack) search resource type list
+--------------------------+--------------------------+
| Name                     | Type                     |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+
| OS::Designate::RecordSet | OS::Designate::RecordSet |
| OS::Designate::Zone      | OS::Designate::Zone      |
| OS::Glance::Image        | OS::Glance::Image        |
| OS::Glance::Metadef      | OS::Glance::Metadef      |
| OS::Nova::Server         | OS::Nova::Server         |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+

Here are the full list of subcommands, Use -h to see options:

Subcommand	Description
search facet list	List Searchlight Facet
search resource type list	List Searchlight Resource Type (Plugin)
search query	Search Searchlight resource

Python API

To use with keystone as the authentication system:

>>> from keystoneclient.auth.identity import generic
>>> from keystoneclient import session
>>> from searchlightclient import client
>>> auth = generic.Password(auth_url=OS_AUTH_URL, username=OS_USERNAME, password=OS_PASSWORD, tenant_name=OS_TENANT_NAME)
>>> keystone_session = session.Session(auth=auth)
>>> sc = client.Client('1', session=keystone_session)
>>> sc.resource_types.list()
[...]

• License: Apache License, Version 2.0

• Documentation: https://docs.openstack.org/developer/python-searchlightclient

• Source: https://opendev.org/openstack/python-searchlightclient

• Bugs: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project_group/searchlight

Testing

There are multiple test targets that can be run to validate the code.

• tox -e pep8 - style guidelines enforcement

• tox -e py36 - traditional unit testing with python 3.6

• tox -e py37 - traditional unit testing with python 3.7