Adding own blobstore provider to jclouds

[Matthias Fetzer <ma...@fetzerms.de>]

Hi!

I currently think about adding an own provider (some custom blobstore
backend)
to jclouds. My plan is to transparently use other blobstores, as well as my
own one via jclouds.

Unfortunately i did not find (much) information regarding "adding" new
providers to
jclouds.

Is there some some mechanism/api to "register" new classes (which implement
BlobStore, in my case) to jclouds? Or should i fork/branch jclouds
itself and add my
own provider to it ?

If somebody could give me some hints, i'd really appreciate that.

cheers,

Matthias

Re: Adding own blobstore provider to jclouds

[Andrew Phillips <ap...@qrmedia.com>]

Hi Matthias

Your best bet for adding a new cloud provider is to copy the code from  
an existing one and modify as appropriate (see e.g. [1] for a recent  
discussion around the same question). There is also a skeletons  
directory [2] but currently not an example for blobstores.

If you're going to be building an HTTP-based API, S3 or Atmos might be  
good ones to look at. Otherwise, the filesystem [3] API (which is also  
quite simple) should serve as a good guide.

Of course, questions here are very welcome. Or hop on to #jclouds on IRC!

Regards

ap

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jclouds-dev/JJkqIv2n5pM
Quoting Matthias Fetzer <ma...@fetzerms.de>:
[2]  
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/master/skeletons/standalone-compute
[3] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/master/apis/filesystem