The World's Shortest CDMI Implementation

The CDMI standard is built around the concept of "capabilities", which describe which functionality a given cloud storage system provides to clients. As a result, it permits a system to only implement a small subset of the standard while still being compliant.

So, to demonstrate this, I present to you the world's shortest* CDMI implementation, written in Ruby:

# World's smallest CDMI implementation, or, how to say NO in CDMI.
require 'socket'
require 'openssl'

listener = TCPServer.new('', 2000)

# Set up TLS
ssl_context = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext.new()
ssl_context.cert = OpenSSL::X509::Certificate.new(File.open("cdmi_server.cert"))
ssl_context.key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(File.open("cdmi_server.key"))
ssl_listener = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLServer.new(listener, ssl_context)

while (connection = ssl_listener.accept)
    request = ""
 while(request.index("\n\n") == nil)
  request << connection.gets
 end

 print "-- CLIENT REQUEST -------------------------------------------------------------\n"
 print request
 print "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n"

 if(request.index("GET ") == 0)
  uri = request.slice(request.index(" ") + 1, request.length)
  uri = uri.slice(0, uri.index(" "))
  
  if(uri == "/")
   connection.puts("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nContent-Type: application/vnd.org.snia.cdmi.container+json\nX-CDMI-Specification-Version: 1.0\n\n{\"objectURI\" : \"/\", \"objectID\" : \"AABwbQAQgTpfe4qRBsyCCw==\", \"parentURI\" : \"/\", \"capabilitiesURI\" : \"/cdmi_capabilities/\", \"completionStatus\" : \"Complete\", \"metadata\" : {}, \"childrenrange\" : \"0-0\", \"children\" : [\"cdmi_capabilities/\"]}")
  elsif(uri == "/cdmi_capabilities" || uri == "/cdmi_capabilities/" )
   connection.puts("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nContent-Type: application/vnd.org.snia.cdmi.capabilities+json\nX-CDMI-Specification-Version: 1.0\n\n{\"objectURI\" : \"/cdmi_capabilities/\", \"objectID\" : \"AABwbQAQnP7GJT2muKDelQ==\", \"parentURI\" : \"/\", \"capabilities\" : {\"cdmi_security_https_transport\" : \"true\", \"cdmi_read_metadata\" : \"true\", \"cdmi_list_children\" : \"true\"}, \"childrenrange\" : \"\", \"children\" : []}")
  else
   connection.puts("404 Not Found\n")
  end
 else
  connection.puts("501 Not Implemented\n")
 end
    
 connection.close
end

* It's a little longer than it could be, because it is written for readability. Removal of comments, code tightening, etc, is left as an exercise for the reader.

Now, since this uses TLS, you'll need a TLS-compatible client. Here's a test client for this purpose:

# Test client for a minimal CDMI implementation
require 'socket'
require 'openssl'

socket = TCPSocket.new('localhost', 2000)

ssl_context = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext.new()
ssl_socket = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new(socket, ssl_context)
ssl_socket.sync_close = true
ssl_socket.connect

ssl_socket.puts("GET #{ARGV[0]} HTTP/1.0")
ssl_socket.puts("accept: application/vnd.org.snia.cdmi.object+json")
ssl_socket.puts("X-CDMI-Specification-Version: 1.0")
ssl_socket.puts("")

print "-- SERVER RESPONSE ------------------------------------------------------------\n"
while line = ssl_socket.gets
 print line
end
print "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n"

In order to run these, you need a x.509 certificate and key. You can generate these using OpenSSL. You can follow the below instructions for apache, then instead of step 5, copy the certificate to "cdmi_server.cert", and copy the key to "cdmi_server.key".

http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html