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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+import socket
+import sys
+import os
+import os.path
+import json
+
+server_address = "/tmp/openstack.sock"
+
+sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+
+try:
+    sock.connect(server_address)
+except socket.error as msg:
+    print(msg, file=sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+
+def send(sock, doc):
+    jdoc = json.dumps(doc)
+    sock.send(b'%d\n' % len(jdoc))
+    sock.sendall(jdoc.encode('utf-8'))
+
+def recv(sock):
+    length_str = b''
+
+    char = sock.recv(1)
+    if len(char) == 0:
+        print("Unexpected end of file", file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    while char != b'\n':
+        length_str += char
+        char = sock.recv(1)
+        if len(char) == 0:
+            print("Unexpected end of file", file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+    total = int(length_str)
+
+    # use a memoryview to receive the data chunk by chunk efficiently
+    jdoc = memoryview(bytearray(total))
+    next_offset = 0
+    while total - next_offset > 0:
+        recv_size = sock.recv_into(jdoc[next_offset:], total - next_offset)
+        next_offset += recv_size
+    try:
+        doc = json.loads(jdoc.tobytes())
+    except (TypeError, ValueError) as e:
+        raise Exception('Data received was not in JSON format')
+    return doc
+
+try:
+    env = {}
+    passenv = ["CINDER_VERSION",
+               "OS_AUTH_URL",
+               "OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION",
+               "OS_NO_CACHE",
+               "OS_PASSWORD",
+               "OS_PROJECT_NAME",
+               "OS_REGION_NAME",
+               "OS_TENANT_NAME",
+               "OS_USERNAME",
+               "OS_VOLUME_API_VERSION",
+               "OS_CLOUD"]
+    for name in passenv:
+        if name in os.environ:
+            env[name] = os.environ[name]
+
+    cmd = {
+        "app": os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]),
+        "env": env,
+        "argv": sys.argv[1:]
+    }
+    try:
+        image_idx = sys.argv.index('image')
+        create_idx = sys.argv.index('create')
+        missing_file = image_idx < create_idx and \
+                not any(x.startswith('--file') for x in sys.argv)
+    except ValueError:
+        missing_file = False
+
+    if missing_file:
+        # This means we were called with an image create command, but were
+        # not provided a --file option. That likely means we're being passed
+        # the image data to stdin, which won't work because we do not proxy
+        # stdin to the server. So, we just reject the operation and ask the
+        # caller to provide the file with --file instead.
+        # We've already connected to the server, we need to send it some dummy
+        # data so it doesn't wait forever.
+        send(sock, {})
+        print('Image create without --file is not allowed in server mode',
+              file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.exit(1)
+    else:
+        send(sock, cmd)
+
+    doc = recv(sock)
+    if doc["stdout"] != b'':
+        print(doc["stdout"], end='')
+    if doc["stderr"] != b'':
+        print(doc["stderr"], file=sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(doc["status"])
+finally:
+    sock.close()