Add a Python API

[dfarrell07]

It would be very helpful to support kicking off simple actions via a well-define Python API. For example, starting and stopping ODL.

[aglenis]

I would be interested in this. Do you have some kind of API in mind?

[dfarrell07]

I would be interested in this.

Wonderful! :+1:

Do you have some kind of API in mind?

Here are some initial thoughts.

• install_odl [verbose]
• install_cbench [verbose]
• start_odl [odl_processors] [verbose]
• run_cbench [run length in minutes] [verbose]
• stop_odl [verbose]
• clean_up [verbose]

[dfarrell07]

Here are some initial thoughts.

Did those make sense @aglenis? Any other info/help/whatever I can provide?

Thanks!

[aglenis]

Makes sense to me. How exactly should be start implementing it? My initial though is to wrap every wcbench function with something like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5826427/can-a-python-script-execute-a-function-inside-a-bash-script

[dfarrell07]

My initial though is to wrap every wcbench function with something like this:

Yeah, that seems reasonable. Only complication may be moving some of the global state in WCBench to params to function calls.