A.4. Python SDK Example: Volumes

def glusterVolumeDelete(clusterName, volumeName):
    try:
        API.clusters.get(clusterName).glustervolumes.get(volumeName).delete()
        return True
    except:
        return False

import ovirtsdk
from ovirtsdk.api import API
from ovirtsdk.xml import params

# This function returns a stop rebalance task instance. Using this
# we can reterive the status of the stop rebalance.
# ex. volume = stopRebalance(clusterName, volumeName)
#     print volume.status.state

def stopRebalance(clusterName, volumeName):
    volume = api.clusters.get(clusterName).glustervolumes.get(volumeName)
    try:
        return volume.stoprebalance()
    except ovirtsdk.infrastructure.errors.RequestError, e:
        print "Error"

def startRebalance(clusterName, volumeName):
    volume = api.clusters.get(clusterName).glustervolumes.get(volumeName)
    return volume.rebalance()

def rebalanceStatus(jobId):
    # jobs.get accepts job name and job id as an optional
    # parameters to provide the job details.
    return api.jobs.get(None, jobId)

clusterName="Default"   # name of the cluser
volumeName="music"      # name of the volume which belongs
                        # to the purticular cluster
try:
    api = API (url="https://HOST",
               username="USER",
               password="PASS",
               ca_file="ca.crt")

    status = startRebalance(clusterName, volumeName)
    jobId = status.job.get_id()
    # jobId return by startRebalance can be stored somewhere
    # for later use. With out the jobId it would be very
    # difficult to find out the actual status of this task.
    print jobId
    privStatus = None
    while True:
        status = rebalanceStatus(jobId)
        jobStatus = status.get_status().get_state()
        if jobStatus != privStatus:
            print "Description: ", status.get_description()
            print "Status:      ", jobStatus
        if "FINISHED" == jobStatus:
            break
        privStatus = jobStatus

    api.disconnect()
except Exception as ex:
    print "Unexpected error: %s" % ex