From 4fd5dd3b1afca700073affe313732c1d0540215e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dean Troyer <dtroyer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:39:48 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add a simple extension hook
This enables stand-alone modules to hook in to the command-line
handler in a dedicated API namespace. These extensions have access
to the existing clients via the client manager but no way to add
another client to the manager is provided..
blueprint client-extensions
Change-Id: I4b2eaa780d8ba881db23d950d09b8702e9e314ef
---
openstackclient/shell.py | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/openstackclient/shell.py b/openstackclient/shell.py
index 29f9f70a7d..eef2d0612a 100644
--- a/openstackclient/shell.py
+++ b/openstackclient/shell.py
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ class OpenStackShell(App):
super(OpenStackShell, self).initialize_app(argv)
# stash selected API versions for later
- # TODO(dtroyer): how do extenstions add their version requirements?
self.api_version = {
'compute': self.options.os_compute_api_version,
'identity': self.options.os_identity_api_version,
@@ -312,6 +311,19 @@ class OpenStackShell(App):
self.command_manager.add_command_group(
'openstack.' + api + version)
+ # This is the naive extension implementation referred to in
+ # blueprint 'client-extensions'
+ # Extension modules can register their commands in an
+ # 'openstack.extension' entry point group:
+ # entry_points={
+ # 'openstack.extension': [
+ # 'list_repo=qaz.github.repo:ListRepo',
+ # 'show_repo=qaz.github.repo:ShowRepo',
+ # ],
+ # }
+ self.command_manager.add_command_group(
+ 'openstack.extension')
+
# Handle deferred help and exit
if self.options.deferred_help:
self.DeferredHelpAction(self.parser, self.parser, None, None)