Details of a droplet

[sckott]

@hadley maybe not needed, but perhaps the droplet object could be passed to another function to neatly show all metadata for the droplet, eg.,

drops <- droplets()
drops[[1]] %>% summary

Giving something like that listed in the readme here https://github.com/sckott/analogsea#get-droplets. Of course user can index to each element, but seems somewhat tedious.

[hadley]

I think summary() would be a reasonable generic, although currently droplets() returns a list of droplets so we'd need an extra class on the return.

What do you imagine people doing with the summary?

[sckott]

I'm thinking they would only inspect the summary, so it could simply be printed to screen via cat() . Actually, a lot of that information is simply what image sizes are available for that region, etc, and can be excluded

[hadley]

I was wondering what you think is missing compared to the current display of droplets()? Or do you want the same info displayed more compactly?

[sckott]

see the droplet.summary fxn I just pushed 6232aaa69b95fb43de3449684a6bed83e4ce96d9 - I think it might be of interest to users to see more details printed nicely. Thoughts?

This is what it looks like:

droplets()[[4]] %>% summary

<droplet_detail>unsophistically (2728020)
  Status: active
  Region: San Francisco 1
  Image: Ubuntu 14.04 x64
  Size: 512mb ($0.00744 / hr)
  Estimated cost ($): 0.009
  Locked: FALSE
  Created at: 2014-09-28T17:21:12Z UTC
  Networks: 
     v4: ip_address (192.241.229.30), netmask (255.255.255.0), gateway (192.241.229.1), type (public)
     v6: none
  Kernel:  id (1682), name (Ubuntu 14.04 x64 vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic), version (3.13.0-32-generic) 
  Snapshots:  
  Backups: 

[hadley]

I like it!