python-glanceclient doesn't support $HOME while uploading image

[Eli Qiao]

~/devstack$ glance --debug image-create --name ubuntu-16 --visibility public --disk-format=qcow2 --container-format=bare \--os-distro=ubuntu --file=~/Downloads/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
File ~/Downloads/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img does not exist or user does not have read privileges to it

~/devstack$ glance image-create --name ubuntu-16 --visibility public --disk-format=qcow2 --container-format=bare \--os-distro=ubuntu --file=/home/user/Downloads/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| checksum | b27130a877734d9ec938a63ca63c4ee7 |
| container_format | bare |
| created_at | 2016-04-25T08:38:29Z |
| disk_format | qcow2 |
| id | 22bc8d04-c77b-4780-b6bb-1a37f11d6deb |
| min_disk | 0 |
| min_ram | 0 |
| name | ubuntu-16 |
| os_distro | ubuntu |
| owner | 959eedbf87534e28a64f94c250b785ac |
| protected | False |
| size | 303235072 |
| status | active |
| tags | [] |
| updated_at | 2016-04-25T08:38:32Z |
| virtual_size | None |
| visibility | public |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+

[Pankaj Mishra (pankaj-mishra)]

I am not able to reproduce this issue. Working fine for me by using $HOME(~). So this is not an issue.

[Eli Qiao (taget-9)]

@Pankaj Mishra

can you paste what your glance CLI command line looks like?

BTW, the glance CLI I am using is 2.0.0

[Pankaj Mishra (pankaj-mishra)]

I used this command
1. With $HOME(~)

pankaj@pankaj-VirtualBox:~/devstack$ glance image-create --name cirros2 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --file ~/devstack/files/images/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-blank.img

2. With whole path

pankaj@pankaj-VirtualBox:~/devstack$ glance image-create --name cirros2 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --file /home/pankaj/devstack/files/images/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-blank.img

[Eli Qiao (taget-9)]

I tried your command, it works for me.

The difference with my CLI command is:

I use --file=~/img

can you try this style?

glance --debug image-create --name ubuntu-16 --visibility public --disk-format=qcow2 --container-format=bare \--os-distro=ubuntu --file=~/Downloads/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

[Pankaj Mishra (pankaj-mishra)]

Yes, I am able to reproduce this issue with file option --file=~/

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/310397

[Stuart McLaren (stuart-mclaren)]

The cli documentation provides the following help on the '--file' parameter:

 $ glance help image-create | grep file
                           [--property <key=value>] [--file <FILE>]
  --file <FILE> Local file that contains disk image to be uploaded

And the documented format works as expected, ie:

 --file ~/somefile

works.

We do not document using an '=' sign:

 --file=~/somefile

so is probably not currently supported.

I think we need to reach a consensus as to whether this undocumented form of the command is supported or not.

For reference the openstack client behaves the same way:

 $ openstack image create --file=~/homefile x1
 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/homefile'

as does swift

 $ swift download container1 homefile --output=~/x
 Error downloading object 'container1/homefile': [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'~/x'

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Brian Rosmaita (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/310397
Reason: Abandoned due to activity, plus the bug it fixes was declared invalid in January 2017.