Tempest CLI Improvements¶

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tempest/+spec/tempest-cli-improvements

Make the Tempest CLI design more consistent and intuitive by utilizing the setuptools and cliff python libraries.

Problem Description¶

There are currently some Tempest CLI endpoints created when tempest is installed but there is no consistency in the console command names or function.

Proposed Change¶

Create an intuitive set of CLI endpoints for Tempest.

Add cliff Support to Tempest¶

Cliff enables creation of console scripts by using a clean class structure for building applications and commands.

See: https://pypi.org/project/cliff/

For example setup.cfg would have:

[entry_points]
console_scripts =
    tempest = tempest.cmd.main:main
tempest.cm =
    cleanup = tempest.cmd.main:CleanupCmd
    # ...

and tempest.cmd.main would look something like:

from cliff.app import App
from cliff.commandmanager import CommandManager
from cliff.command import Command
# ...

class Main(App):

    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

    def __init__(self):
        super(Main, self).__init__(
            description='Tempest cli application',
            version='0.1',
            command_manager=CommandManager('tempest.cm'))

    def initialize_app(self, argv):
        self.log.info('tempest initialize_app')

    def prepare_to_run_command(self, cmd):
        self.log.info('prepare_to_run_command %s', cmd.__class__.__name__)

    def clean_up(self, cmd, result, err):
        self.log.info('Tempest app clean_up %s', cmd.__class__.__name__)
        if err:
            self.log.info('Tempest error: %s', err)

# A sample command implementation would look like:

class CleanupCmd(Command):
    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

    def get_description(self):
        description = "Utility for cleaning up ..."
        return description

    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
        parser = super(CleanupCmd, self).get_parser(prog_name)
        parser.add_argument('--init-saved-state', action="store_true",
                            dest='init_saved_state', default=False,
                            help="Init help...")
        # More args ...
        return parser

    def take_action(self, parsed_args):
        cu = cleanup.Cleanup(parsed_args)
        cu.run()
        self.log.info("Cleanup Done!")

The end result, after running 'setup.py install', this command is valid::

    tempest cleanup --init-saved-state

Proposed command structure¶

tempest cleanup
    arguments:
        --dry-run
        --init-saved-state
        --delete-tempest-conf-objects

tempest create-config
    arguments:
        TBD

tempest verify-config
    arguments:
        --update, -u
        --output, -o
        --replace-ext, -r

tempest javelin
        --mode, -m
        --resources, -r
        --devstack-base, -d
        --config-file, -c
        --os-username
        --os-password
        --os-tenant-name

Implementation¶

Assignee(s)¶

Primary assignees:: David Paterson

Milestones¶

Target Milestone for completion:: Liberty-1

Work Items¶

Add support for Cliff.
Define endpoints and commands in setup.cfg.
Create stubbed tempest.cmd.main module providing main cliff-based CLI facade.
Refactor and migrate existing commands. For each command a new class that extends cliff.command.Command will need to be implemented:
- javelin2
- run-tempest-stress
- tempest-cleanup
- verify-tempest-config
Migrate config_tempest.py from downstream repository and integrate with cliff.

Dependencies¶

cliff - adds framework for creating CLI applications and commands.

Tempest CLI Improvements