internal client based tool to set read-only sysmeta to true/false

read_only.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from argparse import ArgumentParser
import sys

from swift.common.internal_client import InternalClient
from swift.common.wsgi import ConfigString
from swift.container.sync import ic_conf_body

parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('account', help='the account name')
parser.add_argument('--read-only', action='store_true',
                    help='set account to read only')


def main():
    args = parser.parse_args()
    swift = InternalClient(ConfigString(ic_conf_body),
                           'internal-sysmeta', 1)
    metadata = {
        'X-Account-Sysmeta-Read-Only': str(bool(args.read_only)).lower(),
    }
    swift.set_account_metadata(args.account, metadata)
    metadata = swift.get_account_metadata(args.account)
    for k, v in metadata.items():
        print('%s: %s' % (k, v))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())