The swiftclient.Connection API

A low level API that provides methods for authentication and methods that correspond to the individual REST API calls described in the swift documentation.

For usage details see the client docs: swiftclient.client.

Authentication

This section covers the various combinations of kwargs required when creating an instance of the Connection object for communicating with a swift object store. The combinations of options required for each authentication version are detailed below, but are just a subset of those that can be used to successfully authenticate. These are the most common and recommended combinations.

Keystone v3

_authurl = 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/v3/'
_auth_version = '3'
_user = 'tester'
_key = 'testing'
_os_options = {
    'user_domain_name': 'Default',
    'project_domain_name': 'Default',
    'project_name': 'Default'
}

conn = Connection(
    authurl=_authurl,
    user=_user,
    key=_key,
    os_options=_os_options,
    auth_version=_auth_version
)

_authurl = 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/v3/'
_auth_version = '3'
_user = 'tester'
_key = 'testing'
_os_options = {
    'user_domain_id': 'Default',
    'project_domain_id': 'Default',
    'project_id': 'Default'
}

conn = Connection(
    authurl=_authurl,
    user=_user,
    key=_key,
    os_options=_os_options,
    auth_version=_auth_version
)

Keystone v2

_authurl = 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2.0/'
_auth_version = '2'
_user = 'tester'
_key = 'testing'
_tenant_name = 'test'

conn = Connection(
    authurl=_authurl,
    user=_user,
    key=_key,
    tenant_name=_tenant_name,
    auth_version=_auth_version
)

Legacy Auth

_authurl = 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/'
_auth_version = '1'
_user = 'tester'
_key = 'testing'
_tenant_name = 'test'

conn = Connection(
    authurl=_authurl,
    user=_user,
    key=_key,
    tenant_name=_tenant_name,
    auth_version=_auth_version
)

Examples

In this section we present some simple code examples that demonstrate the usage of the Connection API. You can find full details of the options and methods available to the Connection API in the docstring generated documentation: swiftclient.client.

List the available containers:

resp_headers, containers = conn.get_account()
print("Response headers: %s" % resp_headers)
for container in containers:
    print(container)

Create a new container:

container = 'new-container'
conn.put_container(container)
resp_headers, containers = conn.get_account()
if container in containers:
    print("The container was created")

Create a new object with the contents of a local text file:

container = 'new-container'
with open('local.txt', 'r') as local:
    conn.put_object(
        container,
        'local_object.txt',
        contents=local,
        content_type='text/plain'
    )

Confirm presence of the object:

obj = 'local_object.txt'
container = 'new-container'
try:
    resp_headers = conn.head_object(container, obj)
    print('The object was successfully created')
except ClientException as e:
    if e.http_status = '404':
        print('The object was not found')
    else:
        print('An error occurred checking for the existence of the object')

Download the created object:

obj = 'local_object.txt'
container = 'new-container'
resp_headers, obj_contents = conn.get_object(container, obj)
with open('local_copy.txt', 'w') as local:
    local.write(obj_contents)

Delete the created object:

obj = 'local_object.txt'
container = 'new-container'
try:
    conn.delete_object(container, obj)
    print("Successfully deleted the object")
except ClientException as e:
    print("Failed to delete the object with error: %s" % e)