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<sect1 id="zend.service.rackspace">
    <title>Zend_Service_Rackspace</title>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.rackspace.introduction">
        <title>Introduction</title>

        <para>
            The <classname>Zend_Service_Rackspace</classname> is a class that
            provides a simple <acronym>API</acronym> to manage the Rackspace services
            Cloud Files and Cloud Servers.
        </para>
        
        <note><title>Load balancers service</title>
            

            <para>
                The load balancers service of Rackspace is not implemented yet.
                We are planning to release it in the next future.
            </para>
        </note>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.rackspace.registering">
        <title>Registering with Rackspace</title>

        <para>
            Before you can get started with <classname>Zend_Service_Rackspace</classname>, you must
            first register for an account. Please see the
            <ulink url="http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/">Cloud services</ulink>
            page on the Rackspace website for more information.
        </para>

        <para>
            After registering, you can get the Username and the API Key from the Rackspace management
            console under the menu "Your Account" &gt; "API Access".
            These informations are required to use the <classname>Zend_Service_Rackspace</classname>
            classes.
        </para>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.rackspace.feature.files">
        <title>Cloud Files</title>

        <para>
            The Cloud Files is a service to store any files in a cloud environment.
            A user can store an unlimited quantity of files and each file can be as
            large as 5 gigabytes. The files can be private or public. The private files
            can be accessed using the API of Rackspace. The public files are accessed using
            a <acronym>CDN</acronym> (Content Delivery Network).
            Rackspace exposes a <acronym>REST</acronym> API to manage the Cloud Files.
        </para>

        <para>
            <classname>Zend_Service_Rackspace_Files</classname> provides the following functionality:

            <itemizedlist>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Upload files programmatically for tight integration with your application
                    </para>
                </listitem>

                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Enable Cloud Files CDN integration on any container for public distribution
                    </para>
                </listitem>

                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Create Containers programmatically
                    </para>
                </listitem>

                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Retrieve lists of containers and files
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </itemizedlist>
        </para>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.rackspace.feature.servers">
        <title>Cloud Servers</title>

        <para>
            Rackspace Cloud Servers is a compute service that provides server capacity in the cloud.
            Cloud Servers come in different flavors of memory, disk space, and CPU.
        </para>

        <para>
            <classname>Zend_Service_Rackspace_Servers</classname> provides the following functionality:

            <itemizedlist>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Create/delete new servers
                    </para>
                </listitem>

                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        List and get information on each server
                    </para>
                </listitem>

                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Manage the public/private IP addresses of a server
                    </para>
                </listitem>

                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Resize the server capacity
                    </para>
                </listitem>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Reboot a server
                    </para>
                </listitem>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Create new images for a server
                    </para>
                </listitem>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Manage the backup of a server
                    </para>
                </listitem>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Create a group of server to share the IP addresses for High Availability architecture
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </itemizedlist>
        </para>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.rackspace.methods">
        <title>Available Methods</title>
 
        <para>
            Eeach service class (Files, Servers) of Rackspace extends the <classname>Zend_Service_Rackspace</classname> abstract class.
            This class contains a set of public methods shared with all the service.
            This public methods are reported as follow:
        </para>    
        
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.authenticate">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>authenticate</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Authenticate the Rackspace API using the user and the key specified in the concrete class
                        that extend <classname>Zend_Service_Rackspace</classname>.
                        Return <emphasis>true</emphasis> in case of success and <emphasis>false</emphasis> in case of error.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-auth-url">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getAuthUrl</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the authentication URL of Rackspace.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-cdn-url">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getCdnUrl</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the URL for the CDN.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-error-code">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getErrorCode</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the last HTTP error code.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-error-msg">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getErrorMsg</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the last error message.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-http-client">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getHttpClient</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the HTTP client used to call the API of the Rackspace.
                        Returns a <classname>Zend_Http_Client</classname> instance.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-key">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getKey</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the authentication key.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-management-url">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getManagementUrl</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the URL for the management services.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-storage-url">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getStorageUrl</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the URL for the storage (files) service.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-token">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getToken</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the token returned after a successful authentication.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.get-user">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>getUser</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Get the user authenticated with the Rackspace service.
                        Returns a string.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.is-successful">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>isSuccessful</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams/>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Return <emphasis>true</emphasis> if the last service call was successful, false otherwise.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.set-auth-url">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>setAuthUrl</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams>string $url</funcparams>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Set the authentication URL to be used.
                    </para>
                    <para>
                        <emphasis>$url</emphasis> is the URL for the authentication
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.set-key">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>setKey</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams>string $key</funcparams>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Set the key for the API authentication.
                    </para>
                    <para>
                        <emphasis>$key</emphasis> is the key string for the authentication
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            
            <varlistentry id="zend.service.rackspace.files.methods.set-user">
                <term>
                    <methodsynopsis>
                        <methodname>setUser</methodname>
                        <methodparam>
                            <funcparams>string $user</funcparams>
                        </methodparam>
                    </methodsynopsis>
                </term>
                
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Set the user for the API authentication.
                    </para>
                    <para>
                        <emphasis>$user</emphasis> is the user string for the authentication
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </sect2>    
</sect1>