Scylla-API-Client

Scylla API Client is a command line utility implementing a thin client directly utilizing the Scylla REST API

• Installation
• Usage
• Tests
• Design
• Contributing
• Release

Installation

pip install scylla-api-client

Usage

See scylla-api-client --help for all options, below are some sample uses:

• Show all API modules

  $ scylla-api-client --list-modules
  system
  compaction_manager
  gossiper
  endpoint_snitch_info
  storage_proxy
  column_family
  stream_manager
  messaging_service
  storage_service
  cache_service
  failure_detector
  hinted_handoff
  lsa
  commitlog
  collectd
  error_injection
  

• Show all API commands for specific module system

  $ scylla-api-client --list-module-commands system
  system/logger:
  GET: Get all logger names
  POST: Set all logger level
  system/drop_sstable_caches:
  POST: Drop in-memory caches for data which is in sstables
  system/uptime_ms:
  GET: Get system uptime, in milliseconds
  system/logger/{name}:
  GET: Get logger level
  POST: Set logger level
  

• Get loglevel for specific logger httpd

  $ scylla-api-client system/logger/{name} GET --name httpd
  "info"
  

• Set loglevel level=debug for specific logger httpd

  $ scylla-api-client system/logger/{name} POST --name httpd --level debug
  

Tests

pytest is used for writing and executing tests, to run tests you can execute:

pip install -r dev-requirements.txt 
pytest -s -v tests/

Design

Release

Releases are automatically released via GitHub Actions when a new tag v** is pushed to GitHub.

git tag v1.0 <some-commit-hash>
git push origin v1.0

Note: pushing a tag to GitHub requires maintainers/admin privileges.

Contributing

Contributions are welcomed! please create a fork and open a pull request to submit your changes,

Contributing requires installation from source:

1. Clone scylla-api-client repository
2. Install development tools by pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
3. Install scylla-api-client from source by python3 setup.py install --user

Once installed, scylla-api-client can be used by python3 -m scylla_api_client

Note: by installing from source, the package will be installed under $HOME/.local/bin and depending on your OS
may require adding this folder to you $PATH ex. export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin.