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Saturday, August 11, 2012

cloudserver script doesn't work anylonger after installing novaclient

I have played with the FirsGen Rackspace cloud on my box. It was working fine. Some info about how to start with it can be found here rackspace-cloudservers .

At some point I have started using the Openstack nova tool to interact with the Rackspace NextGen cloud to run some tests. Once I was done I returned to the openstack tool and discoved that it stopped to work.

Problem

For every comamnd I run i got alwasys the same error message. An example output.
$ /usr/bin/cloudservers --username user --apikey 123  list
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cloudservers", line 9, in module
    load_entry_point('python-cloudservers==1.0a5', 'console_scripts', 'cloudservers')()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/cloudservers/shell.py", line 413, in main
    CloudserversShell().main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/cloudservers/shell.py", line 127, in main
    args.func(args)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/cloudservers/shell.py", line 279, in do_list
    print_list(self.cs.servers.list(), ['ID', 'Name', 'Status', 'Public IP', 'Private IP'])
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/cloudservers/shell.py", line 402, in print_list
    pt.printt(sortby=fields[0])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/prettytable.py", line 163, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: printt
Solution

After debugin the prettytable.py code it turned out that there is not such a function like printt. Further research confirmed this [1]. The fix this I have changed the code of cloudserver module on my PC. The new code after changes is listed below.

# vim +399 /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/cloudservers/shell.py

def print_list(objs, fields):
    pt = prettytable.PrettyTable([f for f in fields], caching=False)
    pt.aligns = ['l' for f in fields]
    for o in objs:
        pt.add_row([getattr(o, f.lower().replace(' ', '_'), '') for f in fields])

    # pt.printt(sortby=fields[0])
    print pt.get_string(sortby=fields[0])
References
  1. http://code.google.com/p/prettytable/issues/detail?id=14&q=printt
  2. https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/198709

  3. Other examples where the code was broken as well
  4. https://github.com/calebgroom/clb/issues/24
  5. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673790