Michael Barton 5e3e9a882d local WSGI Request and Response classes

This change replaces WebOb with a mostly compatible local library,
swift.common.swob.  Subtle changes to WebOb's API over the years have been a
huge headache.  Swift doesn't even run on the current version.

There are a few incompatibilities to simplify the implementation/interface:
 * It only implements the header properties we use.  More can be easily added.
 * Casts header values to str on assignment.
 * Response classes ("HTTPNotFound") are no longer subclasses, but partials
   on Response, so things like isinstance no longer work on them.
 * Unlike newer webob versions, will never return unicode objects.

Change-Id: I76617a0903ee2286b25a821b3c935c86ff95233f

2012-09-28 14:48:48 -07:00

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Getting Started

System Requirements

Swift development currently targets Ubuntu Server 10.04, but should work on most Linux platforms with the following software:

Python 2.6
rsync 3.0

And the following python libraries:

Eventlet 0.9.8
Setuptools
Simplejson
Xattr
Nose
Sphinx
netifaces

Getting Swift

Swift's source code is hosted on github and managed with git. The current trunk can be checked out like this:

git clone https://github.com/openstack/swift.git

A source tarball for the latest release of Swift is available on the launchpad project page.

Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu are available starting with Natty, or from PPAs for earlier releases.

Development

To get started with development with Swift, or to just play around, the following docs will be useful:

Swift All in One <development_saio> - Set up a VM with Swift installed
Development Guidelines <development_guidelines>

Production

If you want to set up and configure Swift for a production cluster, the following doc should be useful:

Multiple Server Swift Installation <howto_installmultinode>

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