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linstor_api

LINBIT/linstor-server · scripts/linstor-controller-ha-setup.py:157

def linstor_api():
    """A connected python-linstor client for the controller on this node.

    The library is imported here and not at the top: preflight() may still have
    to install linstor-client (which brings python-linstor with it), so at
    import time it is not necessarily there yet.

    The controller is always local -- the script only runs where it is active --
    and only until move_db() stops it, which is why every call has to happen
    before that.
    """
    if not _linstor_conn:
        # preflight() may have installed linstor-client moments ago. Python
        # caches the directory listing of every sys.path entry, so a package
        # that appeared after this interpreter started is not necessarily
        # visible to import without this.
        importlib.invalidate_caches()
        try:

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