Setting the "extra" information for tenant

[Mohammad Banikazemi]

There is a field in keystone database (tenant table) called 'extra' and I can store key-value information in it when I use the REST API:

$ curl -X POST ... -d '{"tenant":{"name":"T1", "description":"Tenant X", "type": "XYZ", "enabled":true}}' http://localhost:35357/v2.0/tenants

Looking at the keystone table I see {type": "XYZ"} under the 'extra' column.
+----------------------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+-----------+
| id | name | extra | description | enabled | domain_id |
+----------------------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+-----------+

the "type" information can be retrieved as shown here:

$keystone tenant-get 03257eed9f8c4f768e6eeb9c58bd15ef
+-------------+----------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+-------------+----------------------------------+
| description | Tenant X |
| enabled | True |
| id | 03257eed9f8c4f768e6eeb9c58bd15ef |
| name | T1 |
| type | XYZ |
+-------------+----------------------------------+

However, the 'extra' information for tenants *cannot* be set through the keystone client.

[Dolph Mathews (dolph)]

They can be generated through the python library, e.g. c.projects.create(name='foobar', arbitrary_key='value'), but the CLI doesn't support this feature today. It'd be an interesting use case for python-openstackclient ... but I'm not sure which other projects support a similar capability?

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

Thanks dolph,

Going forward, openstackclient would be able to perform the set/unset of a key value pair.
It looks like keystoneclient has *some* support: https://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient/blob/master/keystoneclient/v2_0/tenants.py#L133

[Dolph Mathews (dolph)]

Definitely only *some* support in the v2.0 managers, but it should be 100% in the v3 managers. Server-side backend support is guaranteed to vary.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/78737

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/78737
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-openstackclient/commit/?id=70e6333e7d4b3fa87496ff3a888527693875273b
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 70e6333e7d4b3fa87496ff3a888527693875273b
Author: Terry Howe <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 6 12:50:37 2014 -0700

    Add ability to set key value pairs in projects

    Add supporto of extra key value pairs for projects (aka tenants)
    * Added option --property key=value to create and set commands
    * Support for versions v2 and v3

    Change-Id: I84064b8b308579d1b66c83b1ed3d1a37614ec087
    Closes-Bug: #1220280