Graduating oslo.context

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo-incubator/+spec/graduate-oslo-context

oslo.context holds the context base class, which defines APIs used by oslo.messaging and oslo.log.

Library Name

What is the name of the new library?: oslo.context

Contents

  • openstack/common/context.py

  • tests/unit/test_context.py

Early Adopters

  • oslo.log

  • oslo.messaging

Public API

import oslo_context

All of the existing public functions and classes will remain public.

def generate_request_id():
    "Return a unique request identifier."

class RequestContext(object):

    """Helper class to represent useful information about a request context.

    Stores information about the security context under which the user
    accesses the system, as well as additional request information.
    """

def get_admin_context(show_deleted=False):
    "Return a RequestContext configured as an admin user"

def get_context_from_function_and_args(function, args, kwargs):
    """Find an arg of type RequestContext and return it.

       This is useful in a couple of decorators where we don't
       know much about the function we're wrapping.
    """

def is_user_context(context):
    """Indicates if the request context is a normal user."""

A private registry of context objects will be kept using a threading.local() instance and logic based on nova.context.RequestContext. A new public API for accessing the context will be added:

def get_current():
    "Return this thread's current context"

Implementation

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee:

doug-hellmann

Other contributors:

None

Primary Maintainer

Primary Maintainer:

Unknown

Other Contributors:

None

Security Contact

Security Contact:

doug-hellmann

Milestones

Target Milestone for completion: kilo-1

Work Items

Adoption Notes

Projects using oslo.context should subclass oslo_context.RequestContext and create their own application-specific context class.

Dependencies

None

References

Note

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