From 1b856c521a9517b0a038b8da143fe77bf4f4c1f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:17:17 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add SSHClient!!!

---
 salt/client/__init__.py | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/salt/client/__init__.py b/salt/client/__init__.py
index 51d59fd1cf..6a30e75018 100644
--- a/salt/client/__init__.py
+++ b/salt/client/__init__.py
@@ -1220,6 +1220,39 @@ class LocalClient(object):
             del self.event
 
 
+class SSHClient(object):
+    '''
+    Create a client object for executing routines via the salt-ssh backend
+    '''
+    def __init__(self,
+                 c_path=os.path.join(syspaths.CONFIG_DIR, 'master'),
+                 mopts=None):
+        if mopts:
+            self.opts = mopts
+        else:
+            self.opts = salt.config.client_config(c_path)
+        self.salt_user = self.__get_user()
+
+    def cmd_iter(
+            self,
+            tgt,
+            fun,
+            arg=(),
+            timeout=None,
+            expr_form='glob',
+            kwarg=None,
+            **kwargs):
+        '''
+        Execute a single command via the salt-ssh subsystem
+        '''
+        arg = condition_kwarg(arg, kwarg)
+        self.opts['arg_str'] = '{0} {1}'.format(fun, ' '.join(arg))
+        self.opts['selected_target_option'] = expr_form
+        ssh = salt.client.ssh.SSH(self.opts)
+        for ret in ssh.run_iter():
+            yield ret
+
+
 class FunctionWrapper(dict):
     '''
     Create a function wrapper that looks like the functions dict on the minion