swiftspec

import fsspec

with fsspec.open("swift://server/account/container/object.txt", "r") as f:
    print(f.read())

Authentication

swiftspec uses the environment variables OS_STORAGE_URL and OS_AUTH_TOKEN for authentication if available. To create these variables, you can use the swift auth command from the python-swiftclient.

fault tolerance / automatic retry

Sometimes reading or writing from / to a swift storage might fail occasionally. If many objects are accessed, occasional failures can be extremely annoying and could be fixed relatively easily by retrying the request. Fortunately the aiohttp_retry package can help out in these situations. aiohttp_retry provides a wrapper around an aiohttp Client, which will automatically retry requests based on some user-provided rules. You can inject this client into the swiftspec filesystem using the get_client argument. First you'll have to define an async get_client function, which configures the RetryClient according to your preferences, e.g.:

async def get_client(**kwargs):
    import aiohttp
    import aiohttp_retry
    retry_options = aiohttp_retry.ExponentialRetry(
            attempts=3,
            exceptions={OSError, aiohttp.ServerDisconnectedError})
    retry_client = aiohttp_retry.RetryClient(raise_for_status=False, retry_options=retry_options)
    return retry_client

afterwards, you can use this function like:

with fsspec.open("swift://server/account/container/object.txt", "r", get_client=get_client) as f:
    print(f.read())

or:

import xarray as xr
ds = xr.Dataset(...)
ds.to_zarr("swift://server/account/container/object.zarr", storage_options={"get_client": get_client})

Develop

Code Formatting

swiftspec uses Black to ensure a consistent code format throughout the project. Run black . from the root of the swiftspec repository to auto-format your code. Additionally, many editors have plugins that will apply black as you edit files.

Optionally, you may wish to setup pre-commit hooks to automatically run black when you make a git commit. Run pre-commit install --install-hooks from the root of the swiftspec repository to setup pre-commit hooks. black will now be run before you commit, reformatting any changed files. You can format without committing via pre-commit run or skip these checks with git commit --no-verify.