a more general way of generating provider clients

builtin/providers/openstack/clients.go

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package openstack
+
+import (
+	"github.com/rackspace/gophercloud"
+	"github.com/rackspace/gophercloud/openstack"
+)
+
+func newClient(c *Config, service, region string, version int) (*gophercloud.ServiceClient, error) {
+	var serviceClient *gophercloud.ServiceClient
+	switch service {
+	case "compute":
+		if version == 2 {
+			serviceClient, err = openstack.NewComputeV2(c.osClient, gophercloud.EndpointOpts{
+				Region: region,
+			})
+		}
+	case "networking":
+		if version == 2 {
+			serviceClient, err = openstack.NewNetworkV2(c.osClient, gophercloud.EndpointOpts{
+				Region: region,
+			})
+		}
+	}
+	return serviceClient, err
+}