Features

• Support multiple queues subscriptions

• Can address multiple REST endpoints depending on extension(s)

• 1 REST endpoint is a associated to 1 extension in vCD

• Backend servers:

  • HTTP + HTTPS support

  • Basic authentication

  • Basic URI rewritting

• AMQP server:

  • Multiple Exchange/Queue listening

  • Manage Exchange/Queue declarations

  • SSL support

• Extension lifecyle:

  • Deploy a newly declared extension

  • Redeploy an existing extension

• vCloud Director:

  • Support vCD from 9.1 to 10.0

  • Can check user’s right based on per extension setting

  • Can check organization’s membership of an user

Planned features

• #6 - Address some pre-checks like rights management

• #18 - Check organization’s membership of an user

• #2 - Manage extension lifecycle (deploy/re-deploy)

User case

In a vCloud Director instance where 2 API extensions are used (example1, example2):

vcdextproxy subscribe to following AMQP queues:

• example1

• example2

When a message is sent to example1 queue:

1. A URI path check is made: is /api/example1 a correct API path for extension named example1 ?

2. If valid, all fields of the request are converted to REST request (as headers or as body content)

3. REST endpoint handle the request as a standard REST one (with a lot of vCloud information…)

4. REST endpoint replies to vcdextproxy

5. vcdextproxy reformat the reply as an AMQP reply message

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

0.1.x (2019-11-01)

• First release on PyPI.