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Christian Schwede 24657b2b39 Add tests for swift-ring-builder
Add some tests for essential methods in swift-ring-builder.
Tests for removing or changing device settings are executed
with different search values to cover many possible command
line arguments.

Currently tested methods:

- create ring
- add device
- remove device
- set weight
- set info
- set min_part_hours
- set replicas

Tests use swift.common.ring.RingBuilder to verify actions.

Catching and testing output from print statements is not
tested, because this requires redirecting sys.stdout during
tests and that might have some sideeffects for testing tools.

bin/swift-ring-builder has been moved to swift/cli/ringbuilder.py
and slightly modified to work as before (mainly due to no more
existing global variables since that part of the code has been
moved inside a main() function).

Change-Id: Ia63f59a8faca1fad990784f27532ca07a2125454
2014-02-05 16:20:09 +00:00
bin Add tests for swift-ring-builder 2014-02-05 16:20:09 +00:00
doc Fix numbering of steps in proxy section of install_multinode 2014-02-04 11:20:56 -07:00
etc Merge "Add missing sample config of object-replicator" 2014-02-04 10:47:42 +00:00
examples Add a user variable to templates 2013-09-17 11:46:04 +10:00
locale Reverted the pulling out of various middleware: 2012-05-16 21:25:10 +00:00
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.functests Move the tests from functionalnosetests 2014-01-07 15:58:11 +08:00
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Swift

A distributed object storage system designed to scale from a single machine to thousands of servers. Swift is optimized for multi-tenancy and high concurrency. Swift is ideal for backups, web and mobile content, and any other unstructured data that can grow without bound.

Swift provides a simple, REST-based API fully documented at http://docs.openstack.org/.

Swift was originally developed as the basis for Rackspace's Cloud Files and was open-sourced in 2010 as part of the OpenStack project. It has since grown to include contributions from many companies and has spawned a thriving ecosystem of 3rd party tools. Swift's contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file.

Docs

To build documentation install sphinx (pip install sphinx), run python setup.py build_sphinx, and then browse to /doc/build/html/index.html. These docs are auto-generated after every commit and available online at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/.

For Developers

The best place to get started is the "SAIO - Swift All In One". This document will walk you through setting up a development cluster of Swift in a VM. The SAIO environment is ideal for running small-scale tests against swift and trying out new features and bug fixes.

You can run unit tests with .unittests and functional tests with .functests.

Code Organization

  • bin/: Executable scripts that are the processes run by the deployer
  • doc/: Documentation
  • etc/: Sample config files
  • swift/: Core code
    • account/: account server
    • common/: code shared by different modules
      • middleware/: "standard", officially-supported middleware
      • ring/: code implementing Swift's ring
    • container/: container server
    • obj/: object server
    • proxy/: proxy server
  • test/: Unit and functional tests

Data Flow

Swift is a WSGI application and uses eventlet's WSGI server. After the processes are running, the entry point for new requests is the Application class in swift/proxy/server.py. From there, a controller is chosen, and the request is processed. The proxy may choose to forward the request to a back- end server. For example, the entry point for requests to the object server is the ObjectController class in swift/obj/server.py.

For Deployers

Deployer docs are also available at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/. A good starting point is at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/deployment_guide.html

You can run functional tests against a swift cluster with .functests. These functional tests require /etc/swift/test.conf to run. A sample config file can be found in this source tree in test/sample.conf.

For Client Apps

For client applications, official Python language bindings are provided at http://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient.

Complete API documentation at http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/


For more information come hang out in #openstack-swift on freenode.

Thanks,

The Swift Development Team