The Client v3 API

Introduction

The main concepts in the Identity v3 API are:

• credentials
• domains
• endpoints
• groups
• policies
• projects
• roles
• services
• trusts
• users

The keystoneclient.v3.client API lets you query and make changes through managers. For example, to manipulate a project (formerly called tenant), you interact with a keystoneclient.v3.projects.ProjectManager object.

You obtain access to managers through attributes of a keystoneclient.v3.client.Client object. For example, the projects attribute of a Client object is a projects manager:

>>> from keystoneclient.v3 import client
>>> keystone = client.Client(...)
>>> keystone.projects.list() # List projects

While it is possible to instantiate a keystoneclient.v3.client.Client object (as done above for clarity), the recommended approach is to use the discovery mechanism provided by the keystone.client.Client class. The appropriate class will be instantiated depending on the API versions available:

>>> from keystoneclient import client
>>> keystone =
...    client.Client(auth_url='http://localhost:5000', ...)
>>> type(keystone)
<class 'keystoneclient.v3.client.Client'>

One can force the use of a specific version of the API, either by using the version keyword argument:

>>> from keystoneclient import client
>>> keystone = client.Client(auth_url='http://localhost:5000',
                             version=(2,), ...)
>>> type(keystone)
<class 'keystoneclient.v2_0.client.Client'>
>>> keystone = client.Client(auth_url='http://localhost:5000',
                             version=(3,), ...)
>>> type(keystone)
<class 'keystoneclient.v3.client.Client'>

Or by specifying directly the specific API version authentication URL as the auth_url keyword argument:

>>> from keystoneclient import client
>>> keystone =
...     client.Client(auth_url='http://localhost:5000/v2.0', ...)
>>> type(keystone)
<class 'keystoneclient.v2_0.client.Client'>
>>> keystone =
...     client.Client(auth_url='http://localhost:5000/v3', ...)
>>> type(keystone)
<class 'keystoneclient.v3.client.Client'>

Upon successful authentication, a keystoneclient.v3.client.Client object is returned (when using the Identity v3 API). Authentication and examples of common tasks are provided below.

You can generally expect that when the client needs to propagate an exception it will raise an instance of subclass of keystoneclient.exceptions.ClientException

Authenticating

You can authenticate against Keystone using a username, a user domain name (which will default to ‘Default’ if it is not specified) and a password:

>>> from keystoneclient import client
>>> auth_url = 'http://localhost:5000'
>>> username = 'adminUser'
>>> user_domain_name = 'Default'
>>> password = 'secreetword'
>>> keystone = client.Client(auth_url=auth_url, version=(3,),
...                          username=username, password=password,
...                          user_domain_name=user_domain_name)

You may optionally specify a domain or project (along with its project domain name), to obtain a scoped token:

>>> from keystoneclient import client
>>> auth_url = 'http://localhost:5000'
>>> username = 'adminUser'
>>> user_domain_name = 'Default'
>>> project_name = 'demo'
>>> project_domain_name = 'Default'
>>> password = 'secreetword'
>>> keystone = client.Client(auth_url=auth_url, version=(3,),
...                          username=username, password=password,
...                          user_domain_name=user_domain_name,
...                          project_name=project_name,
...                          project_domain_name=project_domain_name)