Create DNS zone change from a bind zone file (or string)

[jgeewax]

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[tseaver]

(Assuming we get past the parsing issue, which is a bit gnarly)

We can't create the Changes instance directly from a file / string: we have to have the existing resource record set, from which we would generate additions and deletions. E.g., convert the existng set to a list of tuples:

from gcloud.dns import Client
client = Client()
zone = client.zone('my_zone', 'example.com.')
rrs, token = zone.list_resource_record_sets()
assert token is None  # see below
current = set([(rr.name, rr.type, rr.ttl, tuple(rr.rrdatas)) for rr in rrs])
# hypothetical utility function returning an equivalent set of tuples
updated = parse_bind_config(file_or_string)
changes = zone.changes()
for deleted in current - updated:
    to_delete = zone.resource_record_set(*deleted)
    changes.delete_record_set(to_delete)
for added in updated - current:
    to_add = zone.resource_record_set(*added)
    changes.add_record_set(to_add)
changes.create()  # API call

The problem is compounded for large-enough zones that all resource record sets cannot be retrieved in a single request: at that point, we have no consistency guarantees between separate "pages" that we fetch, which makes generating a "diff" much harder.

[lukesneeringer]

Hello,
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