Re: [ovirt-users] Python API question

Hi Colin, I´ve also noticed that behaviour, you need to redefine the variable in the loop as well, seems that "snap == 'locked'" forever otherwise: snap = api.vms.get(name=VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[-1] while (snap.get_snapshot_status() == 'locked'): print "Waiting for snapshot creation to finish (status is %s)" % snap.get_snapshot_status() snap = api.vms.get(name=VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[-1] while (snap.get_snapshot_status() == 'locked'): time.sleep(1) /K ________________________________ Från: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org <users-bounces(a)ovirt.org&gt; för Colin Coe <colin.coe(a)gmail.com&gt; Skickat: den 16 januari 2016 06:07 Till: Juan Hernández Kopia: Users(a)ovirt.org Ämne: Re: [ovirt-users] Python API question Hi again all I've just noticed that the snapshot status appears not to update. Consider the code below: --- api.vms.get(VM_NAME).snapshots.add(params.Snapshot(description=SNAPSHOT_NAME, vm=api.vms.get(VM_NAME), persist_memorystate=True)) # Wait for snapshot to finish snap = api.vms.get(name=VM_NAME).snapshots.list()[-1] while (snap.get_snapshot_status() == 'locked'): print "Waiting for snapshot creation to finish (status is %s)" % snap.get_snapshot_status() --- What I find is that even though the WebUI reports the snapshot is created, snap.get_snapshot_status() still reports 'locked'. I'm using RHEV 3.5.7 with RHEL-H 7.1 hosts with vdsm-4.16.30-1.el7ev.x86_64. Am I misunderstanding how this works or have I found a bug? Thanks On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Juan Hernández <jhernand@redhat.com<mailto:jhernand@redhat.com>> wrote: On 01/15/2016 05:23 AM, Colin Coe wrote: The more reliable way to wait till the snapshot is effectively deleted is just to try to get it, and finish when the result is "None": snapshot.delete() while vm.snapshots.get(id=snapshot.get_id()) is not None: sleep(1) Alternatively you can use the return of the delete operation. It returns an "Action" object, that contains a reference to the job that was started to delete the snapshot. The XML representation looks like this: <action> <job href="/api/jobs/f6e4279a-a8e1-44a3-86db-d53336b0eb5a" id="f6e4279a-a8e1-44a3-86db-d53336b0eb5a"/> <status> <state>complete</state> </status> </action> As you can see that contains a link to the job. With the Python SDK you can use it as follows: # Get the id of the job: action = snapshot.delete() job_id = action.get_job().get_id() # Wait till the job is finished: while api.jobs.get(id=job_id).get_status().get_state() != 'FINISHED': time.sleep(1) This is less reliable, because actions may or may not return a job, and that depends on how the action is implemented in the engine, and there is no backwards compatibility guarantee for that. A minor change in the engine may result in the job not being returned. So my suggestion is to use the simple loop to check if the snapshot exists. -- Dirección Comercial: C/Jose Bardasano Baos, 9, Edif. Gorbea 3, planta 3ºD, 28016 Madrid, Spain Inscrita en el Reg. Mercantil de Madrid - C.I.F. B82657941 - Red Hat S.L.