The novaclient.v2.client Module¶

class novaclient.v2.client.Client(api_version=None, auth=None, auth_token=None, auth_url=None, cacert=None, cert=None, direct_use=True, endpoint_override=None, endpoint_type='publicURL', extensions=None, http_log_debug=False, insecure=False, logger=None, os_cache=False, password=None, project_domain_id=None, project_domain_name=None, project_id=None, project_name=None, region_name=None, service_name=None, service_type='compute', session=None, timeout=None, timings=False, user_domain_id=None, user_domain_name=None, user_id=None, username=None, **kwargs)¶

Bases: object

Top-level object to access the OpenStack Compute API.

Warning

All scripts and projects should not initialize this class directly. It should be done via novaclient.client.Client interface.

Initialization of Client object.

Parameters:

api_version (novaclient.api_versions.APIVersion) – Compute API version auth (str) – Auth auth_token (str) – Auth token auth_url (str) – Auth URL cacert (str) – ca-certificate cert (str) – certificate direct_use (bool) – Inner variable of novaclient. Do not use it outside novaclient. It’s restricted. endpoint_override (str) – Bypass URL endpoint_type (str) – Endpoint Type extensions (str) – Extensions http_log_debug (bool) – Enable debugging for HTTP connections insecure (bool) – Allow insecure logger (logging.Logger) – Logger instance to be used for all logging stuff password (str) – User password os_cache (bool) – OS cache project_domain_id (str) – ID of project domain project_domain_name (str) – Name of project domain project_id (str) – Project/Tenant ID project_name (str) – Project/Tenant name region_name (str) – Region Name service_name (str) – Service Name service_type (str) – Service Type session (str) – Session timeout (float) – API timeout, None or 0 disables timings (bool) – Timings user_domain_id (str) – ID of user domain user_domain_name (str) – Name of user domain user_id (str) – User ID username (str) – Username

api_version¶

authenticate()¶

Authenticate against the server.

Normally this is called automatically when you first access the API, but you can call this method to force authentication right now.

Returns on success; raises exceptions.Unauthorized if the credentials are wrong.

get_timings()¶

projectid¶

reset_timings()¶

set_management_url(url)¶

tenant_id¶