> I think this is a slightly different (but related) use case. In this > case the user wants to add an image to the configured Glance store > through the web front-end performing the same task as 'glance add > name="foo" is_public=true < blah.tar.gz' in the CLI. > > Ideally Horizon would provide a UI that allows the user to specify an > image location URL and then optionally a check box for "upload to > image store" or something along those lines.
A-ha, I see what you mean. AFAIK that mode of upload separate to the image POST is not currently supported, but it would be quite straightforward to add say support for a header that identifies an image location for glance to retrieve from (as opposed to just recording the external location). Something like: X-Image-Meta-Retrieve-From: URI where URI is a HTTP, S3, or Swift location that's accessible to the glance API service. Would that address your use-case, Gabriel? Cheers, Eoghan > On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > > > > >> The Horizon team is looking at adding a first-pass implementation > >> of > >> image upload before the Essex release, and we'd really like to > >> bypass the problems associated with, say, passing a 700MB Ubuntu > >> image through the user's browser to a web server and then across > >> to > >> Glance... > >> > >> So the question is this: is there a way to add an image to Glance > >> via > >> the API *without* passing the image data in via the POST body? > >> Options might include specifying a Swift object for the image, or > >> a > >> download URL... > > > > Hi Gabriel, > > > > Check out the X-Image-Meta-Location header which allows a > > pre-existing > > HTTP, S3, Swift or 'file://' image location to be specified. > > > > The result is that the image content is not uploaded to glance, > > instead > > the external location is relied upon. > > > > Cheers, > > Eoghan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
