Working with the object oriented APIs

This means that besides the driver object you also work with NodeImage, and object in the compute API, Container and Object object in the Storage API, Zone and Record object in the DNS API and so on.

Methods which operate on those resources usually require you to pass in an instance of the resource you want to manipulate or work with and not just an id.

A couple of examples are shown below.

In this example, the method call results in an HTTP call.

As you can see above, most of those getter methods retrieve extra information about the resource from the provider API and result in an HTTP request.

There are some cases when you might not want this:

• You don’t care about the extra attributes
• You want to avoid an extra HTTP request