openqa-client

openqa_client

This is a client for the openQA API, based on requests. It requires Python 3.6 or later.

Usage

Here's a simple example of reading the status of a job:

from openqa_client.client import OpenQA_Client
client = OpenQA_Client(server='openqa.opensuse.org')
print(client.openqa_request('GET', 'jobs/1'))

Here's an example of triggering jobs for an ISO:

# This is a Fedora server.
client = OpenQA_Client(server='openqa.happyassassin.net')
params = {}
params['ISO'] = '22_Beta_TC2_server_x86_64_boot.iso'
params['DISTRI'] = 'fedora'
params['VERSION'] = '22'
params['FLAVOR'] = 'server_boot'
params['ARCH'] = 'x86_64'
params['BUILD'] = '22_Beta_TC2'
print(cl.openqa_request('POST', 'isos', params))

All methods other than GET require authentication. This client uses the same configuration file format as the reference (perl) client in openQA itself. Configuration will be read from /etc/openqa/client.conf or ~/.config/openqa/client.conf. A configuration file looks like this:

[openqa.happyassassin.net]
key = APIKEY
secret = APISECRET

You can get the API key and secret from the web UI after logging in. Your configuration file may include credentials for multiple servers; each section contains the credentials for the server named in the section title.

If you create an OpenQA_Client instance without passing the server argument, it will use the first server listed in the configuration file if there is one, otherwise it will use 'localhost'. Note: this is a difference in behaviour from the perl client, which always uses 'localhost' unless a server name is passed.

TLS/SSL connections are the default (except for localhost). You can pass the argument scheme to OpenQA_Client to force the use of unencrypted HTTP, e.g. OpenQA_Client(server='openqa.happyassassin.net', scheme='http').

The API always returns JSON responses; this client's request functions parse the response before returning it.

If you need for some reason to make a request which does not fall into the openqa_request() method's expected pattern, you can construct a requests.Request and pass it to do_request(), which will attach the required headers, execute the request, and return the parsed JSON response.

The const module provides several constants that are shadowed from the upstream openQA code, including job states, results, and the 'scenario keys'.

Development

You can file pull requests at Github. There is an extensive test suite with CI integration. You can run the test suite locally by running tox. If your system has a tox version earlier than 3.3.0, you must have the setuptools_scm Python module installed for this to work correctly, or else you will get errors about a missing install.requires file.

Licensing

This software is available under the GPL, version 2 or any later version. A copy is included as COPYING. Contributions submitted as pull requests are assumed to be submitted under the same license terms unless otherwise specified.