def create_workload():
"""
An interface to create a new workload and return a directory
for the client to transfer data to and the workload id as is in the
database.
"""
if request.method == "POST":
username = request.form["username"]
secret_key = ""
access_key = ""
key_pair = ""
print "Request from %s" % username
if "access_key" in request.form:
access_key = request.form["access_key"]
secret_key = request.form["secret_key"]
key_pair = request.form["key_pair"]
# Get the user id from the database
res = {}
try:
db_manager = DBManager()
user_id = db_manager.get_user_id(username, access_key, secret_key, key_pair)
# Now create a new workload
workload_id = db_manager.create_new_workload(user_id)
workload_dir = create_workload_dir(workload_id)
# Update the database to reflect the working dir being there
db_manager.update_workload_dir(workload_id, workload_dir)
res = {"workload_id": workload_id, "workload_dir": workload_dir}
except Exception, e:
print "Error: %s" % e
raise e
return jsonify(res)
