Cattle Python API and Client

A Python client for Cattle

Installing

pip install cattle

Running as command line client

export CATTLE_URL=http://localhost:8080/v1
cattle --help
# curl -s http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets?foo=bar
cattle list-widget --foo=bar
# curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "foo" : "bar" }'
cattle create-widget --foo=bar
# curl -s -X PUT http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets/42 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "foo" : "bar" }'
cattle update-widget --id=42 --foo=bar
# curl -s -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets/42
cattle delete-widget --id=42

Environment variables

Name	Description	Example
CATTLE_URL	URL of the API	http://localhost:8080/v1
CATTLE_ACCESS_KEY	Access Key	4C27AB31828A4E469C09
CATTLE_SECRET_KEY	Secrey Key	fDxEzyxdFMWbmugstPpzykj2qA84Tn9DPDiAc3Sb

The above environment variables can be passed as arguments on the command line such as --url, --access-key, and --secret-key.

Bash Autocompletion

Add the below to your .bashrc or similar profile script:

eval "$(register-python-argcomplete cattle)"

Using API

importcattleclient=cattle.Client(url='http://localhost:8080/v1',
access_key='4C27AB31828A4E469C09',
secret_key='fDxEzyxdFMWbmugstPpzykj2qA84Tn9DPDiAc3Sb')
# curl -s http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets?foo=barclient.list_widget(foo='bar')
# curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "foo" : "bar" }'client.create_widget(foo='bar')
# curl -s -X PUT http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets/42 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{ "foo" : "bar" }'widget=client.by_id_widget('42')
client.update(widget, foo='bar')
# curl -s -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets/42widget=client.by_id_widget('42')
client.delete(widget)
# Links# curl -s -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/v1/widgets/42/foobarswidget=client.by_id_widget('42')
widget.foobars()

Contact

For bugs, questions, comments, corrections, suggestions, etc., open an issue in rancher/rancher with a title starting with [cattle-cli] .

Or just click here to create a new issue.

Release Process

First, be ibuildthecloud, because he owns the PyPi account. Then create a file ${HOME}/.pypirc

[distutils]
index-servers = pypi
[pypi]
repository: https://pypi.python.org/pypi
username: ibuildthecloud
password: *************

Then run python setup.py sdist upload

License

MIT Style