please start testing (and helping with) the new openstack-swift api

[Adrian Cole <ad...@gmail.com>]

Hi, team.

I put together the BlobStore interface for OpenStack Swift Grizzly over the
weekend.  Ended up having to raise a few issues w/the vendors, who were
nice *.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-73

You would use this just like any other BlobStore, with the provider key
"openstack-swift".  Presumably the below snapshot will be up-to-date by the
time you read this:

https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/jclouds/labs/openstack-swift/1.7.0-SNAPSHOT/

It works against Rackspace and HPCS, barring the usual ACL
incompatibilities which will need to be addressed in sub-projects.  It is
hard to compare results to the old "swift" as that codebase is very broken
:)  The codebase significantly cleans complexity in blob signing, so do
have a look at that.

As I'm starting a new job Tuesday, I will be counting on others to help
with polish and any provider adapting.  Last thing I'll look at tomorrow is
the multi-region experiment (JCLOUDS-299), mainly to show how it can work.

Hope you enjoy the new code.
-A

*  FYI, there is irc for #openstack-swift and also #cloudfiles!