sxclient 0.1.0

Python SX client-side library

Introduction

sxclient is a library which implements client-side methods for communicating with an SX Cluster. Using the provided objects and functions, it is possible to prepare and send a query as per the API documentation at http://docs.skylable.com/.

Internally, sxclient uses requests library (http://python-requests.org/) and currently requires Python 2.7.

Usage

In order to run an operation provided by the library, you have to perform some preparatory actions:

• prepare a Cluster object, containing cluster location data;

• prepare a UserData object, containing user credentials used to authorize operations;

• prepare a ClusterSession object which serves as a context for the connections with the cluster.

Afterwards, you can run a series of operations using the previously created ClusterSession object as a context.

Initializing Cluster object

The most basic way of initializing the Cluster object is to pass the cluster name:

cluster = sxclient.Cluster('my.cluster.example.com')

If the passed name is not a FQDN, you should pass an IP address too. It will be used to communicate with the cluster in place of name.

cluster = sxclient.Cluster('clustername', ip_address='127.0.0.1')

In case you don’t want the connection to be secured by SSL, set is_secure to False:

cluster = sxclient.Cluster('my.cluster.example.com', is_secure=False)

You can also pass a custom port number:

cluster = sxclient.Cluster('my.cluster.example.com', port=8000)

Initializing UserData object

There are multiple initialization methods for UserData. You can provide a path to the key file:

user_data = sxclient.UserData.from_key_path('/path/to/keyfile')

The key itself can be provided too — either encoded in base64:

user_data = sxclient.UserData.from_key('ZP1rHyR0QB6zEvCwYexGl9SF1G143C/D2hG9rEisLL2zJV3kWQvtAwAA')

or in its binary form:

user_data = sxclient.UserData('d\xfdk\x1f$t@\x1e\xb3\x12\xf0\xb0a\xecF\x97\xd4\x85\xd4mx\xdc/\xc3\xda\x11\xbd\xacH\xac,\xbd\xb3%]\xe4Y\x0b\xed\x03\x00\x00')

Initializing ClusterSession object

After preparing Cluster and UserData objects, a ClusterSession object can be created.

session = sxclient.ClusterSession(cluster, user_data)

For secure connections the library verifies SSL certificates by default. You can turn off the verification by passing False in verify parameter:

session = sxclient.ClusterSession(cluster, user_data, verify=False)

In order to use a custom CA certificate for verification, pass a path to CA bundle in verify parameter:

session = sxclient.ClusterSession(cluster, user_data, verify='/path/to/ca/bundle')

At the end you should close the session with session.close(). It is advised to use ClusterSession as a context manager:

with sxclient.ClusterSession(cluster, user_data) as session:
    # run operations

Running an operation

Currently the following operations are available:

listUsers
listVolumes
createUser
modifyUser
removeUser
listNodes
getNodeStatus
getClusterMetadata
setClusterMetadata
locateVolume
createVolume
modifyVolume
deleteVolume
getVolumeACL
setVolumeACL
updateVolumeACL

For more information regarding usage of a specific operation function see its docstring. For example, to see the description for listVolumes, you can use the Python built-in help function:

>>> help(sxclient.listVolumes)

or pydoc while in the shell:

$ pydoc sxclient.listVolumes