Test CloudStack API Using Simulator

In this post, I am going to test how to CloudStack API works using Simulator.

Environment OS: Ubuntu 16.04 Java: openjdk version "1.8.0_131" Scala: 2.10 Build Tool: Apache Maven 3.5.0 IDE: IntelliJ CloudStack(simulator): 4.9

Run CloudStack simulator on a docker container It is very easy to run CloudStack simulator on a docker container. https://hub.docker.com/r/cloudstack/simulator/ Just execute the following command on your docker server.

docker pull cloudstack/simulator
docker run --name cloudstack -d -p 8080:8080 cloudstack/simulator

Then, you can connect to CloudStack management web GUI.

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Generate API key and Secret key to access API Following this guide http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/dev.html, you need to generate keys to access CloudStack via API. You can generate the keys on GUI.

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Click "generate keys", then API key and Secret key are created.

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Generate signature To send HTTP GET request to CloudStack, you need to generate signature by encording api key and request URL. As it is a little bit complicated process for coding in Scala, and because this is just for a test purpose, I coded a program to send HTTP GET request in Python just by following the instruction in the guide.

import urllib2
import urllib
import hashlib
import hmac
import base64

baseurl='http://10.32.2.56:8080/client/api?'
request={}
request['command']='listUsers'
request['response']='json'
request['apikey']='***omitted***'
secretkey='***omitted***'

request_str='&'.join(['='.join([k,urllib.quote_plus(request[k])]) for k in request.keys()])

sig_str='&'.join(['='.join([k.lower(),urllib.quote_plus(request[k].lower().replace('+','%20'))])for k in sorted(request.iterkeys())])
#sig_str 'apikey=plgwjfzk4gys3momtvmjuvg-x-jlwlnfauj9gabbbf9edm-kaymmailqzzq1elzlyq_u38zcm0bewzgudp66mg&command=listusers&response=json'
sig=hmac.new(secretkey,sig_str,hashlib.sha1)
sig=hmac.new(secretkey,sig_str,hashlib.sha1).digest()
sig=base64.encodestring(hmac.new(secretkey,sig_str,hashlib.sha1).digest())
sig=base64.encodestring(hmac.new(secretkey,sig_str,hashlib.sha1).digest()).strip()
sig=urllib.quote_plus(base64.encodestring(hmac.new(secretkey,sig_str,hashlib.sha1).digest()).strip())
req=baseurl+request_str+'&signature='+sig
res=urllib2.urlopen(req)
print res.read() 

Confirm CloudStack API returns expected values The simulator returned values as expected, therefore, this simulator can be used for further investigation.

C:\Users\>activate python27
(python27) C:\Users\>python "C:\Users\\Desktop\temp.py"
{"listusersresponse":{"count":1,"user":[{"id":"4bc88465-6b5a-11e7-9f99-0242ac110002","username":"admin","firstname":"Admin","lastname":"User","email":"[email protected]","created":"2017-07-18T01:42:02+0000","state":"enabled","account":"admin","accounttype":1,"usersource":"native","roleid":"56866a3d-6b5a-11e7-9f99-0242ac110002","roletype":"Admin","rolename":"Root Admin","domainid":"4bc8433a-6b5a-11e7-9f99-0242ac110002","domain":"ROOT","apikey":"AJ_88MyUSU8sDqcHd1JXQnW9T-_SbkV6-aCCpuSq8PvS-MH6r-uy-GBkX-1QqeZ49a-glnbL_Vvu2dz_en9XZw","accountid":"4bc8631f-6b5a-11e7-9f99-0242ac110002","iscallerchilddomain":false,"isdefault":true}]}}

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