shade/doc/source/usage.rst
David Shrewsbury ab8a196907 Clarify Munch object usage in documentation
We have pretty much settled on sticking with Munch objects for the
1.x series of shade releases. Change the documentation to note this.

Change-Id: I8b2838c3a5a40b0c74e31081bfb1ed4b0d39280f
2016-02-12 03:44:05 +00:00

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Usage
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To use shade in a project::
import shade
.. note::
API methods that return a description of an OpenStack resource (e.g.,
server instance, image, volume, etc.) do so using a dictionary of values
(e.g., ``server['id']``, ``image['name']``). This is the standard, and
**recommended**, way to access these resource values.
For backward compatibility, resource values can be accessed using object
attribute access (e.g., ``server.id``, ``image.name``). Shade uses the
`Munch library <https://github.com/Infinidat/munch>`_ to provide this
behavior. This is **NOT** the recommended way to access resource values.
We keep this behavior for developer convenience in the 1.x series of shade
releases. This will likely not be the case in future, major releases of shade.
.. autoclass:: shade.OpenStackCloud
:members:
.. autoclass:: shade.OperatorCloud
:members: