Swift backend not taking into account new Swift account:user:key in URI

[Jay Pipes]

The old cloudfiles client handled URIs for Swift in the form of:

swift://user:password@authurl/container/object

However, newer Swift versions use an account system as well, so that a user is really "account:user". We need to take this into account when parsing the URIs coming into Glance.

Below is some IRC log discussing the issue.

<creiht> jaypipes: so the quick fix is to change line 102
<creiht> to
<creiht> user, key = creds.rsplit(':',1)
<creiht> that should still give you the right creds
<creiht> and the uri could be represented as:
<creiht> swift://account:user:password@auth_url/container/file.gz.0
<jaypipes> creiht: yup, that's what I was thinking too...

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

Marked this High priority since AFAICT, there is no workaround.

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

this is no longer valid. With the new Swift work in 713126, simply set the the URI properly to:

swift://user:key@authurl/container/objname

where authurl might be, for instance, localhost:9090/v1/account

[Marcelo Martins (btorch)]

Hi Jay,

Are you referring to the swift_store_auth_address property in the glance.conf file ? I have the cactus trunk rev87 and I noticed that issue while trying to clear the images. Glance is running on the same box I have swift-1.2.0 installed.

[Jay Pipes (jaypipes)]

OK, so yet again, I was confusing the Auth URL with the Storage Management URL *returned* by the auth URL...

Solution is to parse the location with account:user properly.