Added ability to create binds when starting a container.

docker/client.py

@@ -280,10 +280,19 @@ class Client(requests.Session):
         return self._result(self.get(self._url("/images/search"),
             params={'term': term}), True)
 
-    def start(self, *args):
+    def start(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        start_config = {}
+        binds = kwargs.pop('binds', '')
+        if binds:
+            bind_pairs = ['{0}:{1}'.format(host, dest) for host, dest in binds.items()]
+            start_config = {
+                'Binds': bind_pairs,
+            }
+
         for name in args:
             url = self._url("/containers/{0}/start".format(name))
-            self.post(url, None)
+            self.post_json(
+                url, start_config, headers={"Content-Type":"application/json"})
 
     def stop(self, *args, **kwargs):
         params = {

tests/test.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+import os
 import unittest
-import time
 
 import docker
 
@@ -97,6 +97,27 @@ class TestCreateContainer(BaseTestCase):
         self.assertIn('Id', res)
         self.tmp_containers.append(res['Id'])
 
+class TestCreateContainerWithBinds(BaseTestCase):
+    def runTest(self):
+        mount_dest = '/mnt'
+        mount_origin = os.getcwd()
+
+        filename = 'shared.txt'
+        shared_file = os.path.join(mount_origin, filename)
+
+        with open(shared_file, 'w'):
+            container = self.client.create_container('busybox',
+                ['ls', mount_dest], volumes={mount_dest: {}})
+            container_id = container['Id']
+            self.client.start(container_id, binds={mount_origin: mount_dest})
+            self.tmp_containers.append(container_id)
+            exitcode = self.client.wait(container_id)
+            self.assertEqual(exitcode, 0)
+            logs = self.client.logs(container_id)
+
+        os.unlink(shared_file)
+        self.assertIn(filename, logs)
+
 class TestStartContainer(BaseTestCase):
     def runTest(self):
         res = self.client.create_container('busybox', 'true')
@@ -297,4 +318,4 @@ class TestRunShlex(BaseTestCase):
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    unittest.main()
+    unittest.main()