> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@citrix.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:45 AM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: RE: CLI for CloudStack: cloudmonkey
> 
> Hi Chip, please go ahead if we can fix the http/s issue. The connection is
> based on marvin, I'm sure using CLI we'll find out more bugs and fix anything
> in marvin thereby help maintain marvin->tests and CLI.
> Please hack that up on tools/marvin/marvin/cloudstackConnection.py
> 
> Edison, yes I'm working on the completedefault, I've figured a solution to the
> parsing and tabbing issue to show params for any api and added more verbs
> to the grammar like deploy, start etc.
> In the new approach doc strings and params needed for an api are fetched
> and cached in the class locally to speed up the loading process.
> Till it gets committed, cloudmonkey (now) will keep telling the user what
> params they are missing until it gets all the required ones.

Great! Thanks for your awesome CLI, people will like it.

> 
> One more thing, for people who may not have unicode support the prompt
> may appear weird and history search (up, down ) can mess up the visuals. For
> example on Mac it appears as a colorful emoji, but I found that it looks weird
> on other platforms. Will probably remove it, or the user can custom set their
> prompt, using: set prompt myprompt>
> 
> Regards.
> PS. the set command is full of (fun :)  hacks because of funtional/generic
> programming, it basically can set any attribute on the class, so one can do
> something like creating something (var, func). For example set ruler # (so
> instead of - you will have a # separator)
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Chip Childers [chip.child...@sungard.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:15 PM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: CLI for CloudStack: cloudmonkey
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@citrix.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was working on a CLI for cloudstack, it's based on Marvin (the
> > neglected robot) and called cloudmonkey after our beloved mascot :D
> >
> > I've committed that on master, please review:
> > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=c
> > ommit;h=2ceaa3911e792dbeb6c40dfb70961008a01f7e3c
> >
> > Features:
> > - it's a shell and also a terminal tool, accepts file redirection and
> > pipes
> > - scalable to find and run old and new APIs
> > - intuitive grammar and verbs
> > - autocompletion (functional hack)
> > - shell execution using ! or shell
> > - cfg support: user defined variables, like prompt, ruler, host, port etc.
> > - history
> > - colors (disable using set color false)
> > - dynamic API loading and rule generation
> > - leverages Marvin to get latest autogenerated APIs
> > - emacs like shortcuts on prompt
> > - uses apiKey and secretKey to interact with mgmt server
> > - logs all client commands
> > - PEP-8 compliant code
> >
> > FIXMEs:
> > - Reverse search over history
> > - Fix input and output processing
> >
> > It requires python and clint;
> > pip install clint (or if you have to easy_install clint) mvn clean
> > install -P developer cd tools/cli/cloudmonkey python cloudmonkey.py
> >
> > If you want to have the terminal tool installed; cd tools/cli python
> > setup.py sdist cd dist pip install cloudmonkey-0.0.4.tar.gz (or
> > easy_install etc.)
> >
> > You can do stuff like;
> > cloudmonkey < file-with-commands, or
> > cloudmonkey list Users, or as shell;
> >
> > (If you see unicode chars cloud and monkey below, yes they were put
> > intentionally :)
> >
> > $ cloudmonkey
> > ☁ Apache CloudStack CLI. Type help or ? to list commands.
> > 🙉 cloudmonkey>  set apiKey <your key here>
> > 🙉 cloudmonkey>  set secretKey <your key here>
> > 🙉 cloudmonkey>  <tab><tab>
> > add      api      create   delete   disable  enable   help     list     
> > quit     remove
> set      shell    update
> > 🙉 cloudmonkey>  list <tab><tab>
> > Accounts                   Alerts                     AsyncJobs             
> >      Capabilities
> Capacity                   Clusters                   Configurations
> > DiskOfferings              DomainChildren             Domains               
> >      Events
> EventTypes                 FirewallRules              Hosts
> > HypervisorCapabilities     Hypervisors                InstanceGroups
> IpForwardingRules          IsoPermissions             Isos
> LBStickinessPolicies
> > LoadBalancerRuleInstances  LoadBalancerRules          NetworkACLs
> NetworkDevice              NetworkOfferings           Networks
> NetworkServiceProviders
> > OsCategories               OsTypes                    PhysicalNetworks      
> >      Pods
> PortForwardingRules        PrivateGateways            ProjectAccounts
> > ProjectInvitations         Projects                   PublicIpAddresses
> RemoteAccessVpns           ResourceLimits             Routers
> SecurityGroups
> > ServiceOfferings           SnapshotPolicies           Snapshots
> SSHKeyPairs                StaticRoutes               StorageNetworkIpRange
> StoragePools
> > SupportedNetworkServices   Swifts                     SystemVms             
> >      Tags
> TemplatePermissions        Templates                  TrafficTypeImplementors
> > TrafficTypes               Users                      VirtualMachines
> VirtualRouterElements      VlanIpRanges               Volumes
> VPCOfferings
> > VPCs                       VpnConnections             VpnCustomerGateways
> VpnGateways                VpnUsers                   Zones
> > 🙉 cloudmonkey>  list Users
> > …
> > 🙉 cloudmonkey>  !ls
> > # this give you a shell too and one can do things like
> > 🙉 cloudmonkey>  !for i in Users Account; do echo `cloudmonkey list $i
> > | grep id`; done;
> >
> > Example commands to deploy a datacenter; (fill in dynamic ids etc.)
> > create Zone dns1=8.8.8.8 internaldns1=10.147.28.6 name=Zone1
> > networktype=Basic create PhysicalNetwork name=test-network zoneid=
> add
> > TrafficType traffictype=Guest physicalnetworkid= add TrafficType
> > traffictype=Management physicalnetworkid= update PhysicalNetwork
> > state=Enabled id= list NetworkServiceProviders name=VirtualRouter
> > physicalNetworkId= list VirtualRouterElements nspid= api
> > configureVirtualRouterElement enabled=true id= update
> > NetworkServiceProvider state=Enabled id= list NetworkServiceProviders
> > name=SecurityGroupProvider physicalNetworkId= update
> > NetworkServiceProvider state=Enabled id= create Network zoneid=
> > name=guestNetworkForBasicZone displaytext=guestNetworkForBasicZone
> > networkofferingid= create Pod zoneid= name=Pod1 gateway=10.147.28.1
> > netmask=255.255.255.0 startip=10.147.28.220 endip=10.147.28.235 create
> > VlanIpRange podid= networkid= gateway=10.147.28.1
> > netmask=255.255.255.0 startip=10.147.28.236 endip=10.147.28.250
> > forVirtualNetwork=false add Cluster zoneid= hypervisor=XenServer
> > clustertype=CloudManaged podid= clustername=Cluster1 add Host
> zoneid=
> > podid= clusterid= hypervisor=XenServer clustertype=CloudManaged
> > username=root password=password url=http://10.147.28.60 create
> > StoragePool zoneid= clusterid= name=NFS1
> > url=nfs://10.147.28.7/export/home/rohit/primary
> > add SecondaryStorage zoneId=
> > url=nfs://10.147.28.7/export/home/rohit/secondary
> > update Zone allocationstate=Enabled id=
> >
> > After some stabilisation, I can put it on pypi so any user can just do pip
> install cloudmonkey to get the CLI.
> >
> > Regards.
> > PS. Marvin the neglected robot and hipster cloudmonkey should rule the
> > world :D
> 
> Rohit,
> 
> This is really really cool.  It puts the "fun" in managing instances from a
> command line.  I've been testing it against a production CloudStack
> environment, and it's working pretty well.
> 
> If you don't mind, I might hack at the code a bit to fill in some gaps that 
> I'm
> seeing.  First example is that it assumes http, which doesn't work in a public
> deployment where the endpoint is over https.
> 
> -chip

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