Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/pycurl' into planetlab-4_0-branch

[plcapi.git] / PLC / Shell.py

diff --git a/PLC/Shell.py b/PLC/Shell.py
index d9e812c..43317a0 100644 (file)
--- a/PLC/Shell.py
+++ b/PLC/Shell.py
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 # Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
 # Copyright (C) 2005 The Trustees of Princeton University
 #
-# $Id: Shell.py,v 1.1 2007/01/08 18:10:30 mlhuang Exp $
+# $Id: Shell.py 5574 2007-10-25 20:33:17Z thierry $
 #
 
+import os
 import pydoc
 import xmlrpclib
 
@@ -57,8 +58,12 @@ class Shell:
                  config = None,
                  # XML-RPC server
                  url = None, xmlrpc = False, cacert = None,
-                 # API authentication
-                 method = None, role = None, user = None, password = None):
+                 # API authentication method
+                 method = None,
+                 # Password authentication
+                 role = None, user = None, password = None,
+                 # Session authentication
+                 session = None):
         """
         Initialize a new shell instance. Re-initializes globals.
         """
@@ -103,17 +108,25 @@ class Shell:
                       ":" + str(self.config.PLC_API_PORT) + \
                       "/" + self.config.PLC_API_PATH + "/"
 
-            if cacert is None and self.config is not None:
-                cacert = self.config.PLC_API_CA_SSL_CRT
+                if cacert is None:
+                    cacert = self.config.PLC_API_CA_SSL_CRT
 
             self.url = url
-            self.server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url, PyCurlTransport(url, cacert), allow_none = 1)
+            if cacert is not None:
+                self.server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url, PyCurlTransport(url, cacert), allow_none = 1)
+            else:
+                self.server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url, allow_none = 1)
 
         # Set up authentication structure
 
-        # Default is to use capability authentication
+        # Default is to use session or capability authentication
         if (method, user, password) == (None, None, None):
-            method = "capability"
+            if session is not None or os.path.exists("/etc/planetlab/session"):
+                method = "session"
+                if session is None:
+                    session = "/etc/planetlab/session"
+            else:
+                method = "capability"
 
         if method == "capability":
             # Load defaults from configuration file if using capability
@@ -130,6 +143,14 @@ class Shell:
 
         if role == "anonymous" or method == "anonymous":
             self.auth = {'AuthMethod': "anonymous"}
+        elif method == "session":
+            if session is None:
+                raise Exception, "Must specify session"
+
+            if os.path.exists(session):
+                session = file(session).read()
+
+            self.auth = {'AuthMethod': "session", 'session': session}
         else:
             if user is None:
                 raise Exception, "Must specify username"