Debugging python-novaclient on the command line.

I have done lately quite a bit of work with python-novaclient the (nova/keystone) openstack client. I often experiment it with ipython in the console.

There is a nice debugging facility in novaclient which you can see while using –debug argument on the command line and if you wanted to use it with ipython you could have that at the beginning of your session :

This would give you the details of the session showing you the REST requests and responses including the headers. It even show you the curl commands that you can use on the command line to experiment with it.