Add ability to wait for droplet creation/destruction about python-digitalocean HOT 3 CLOSED

Actually this is possible.
Every Action object has the wait() method.

https://github.com/koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean/blob/master/digitalocean/Action.py

This will allow you to wait until the action is completed. Just let the method (reboot, start, destroy) return an action object, not the dictionary, and use the method wait()

So as described in the other issue #112 , it should be different.

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@koalalorenzo droplet.create() and droplet.destroy() do not return Actions or dictionaries so it is not possible to use the wait() method. The DigitalOcean API does not return an Action for the destroy command. However, for the create command, it sends something that looks like an Action ID. This fact is not well documented so I'm not sure if this is a Droplet Action that can be queried at /droplets/DROPLET_ID/actions/ACTION_ID or just an Action which needs to be queried at /actions/ACTION_ID.

@artfullyContrived You can try to do this so long

 droplet.create()
 action = Action(id=droplet.action_ids[0], token=droplet.token, droplet_id=droplet.id)
 action.wait()

I doubt that this will work, but you can try it.

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@moyamo your example almost worked for me, I needed to add a "load" call to the action before waiting for it. Thanks, your comment helped me out.

droplet.create()
action = Action(id=droplet.action_ids[0], token=droplet.token, droplet_id=droplet.id)
action.load()
action.wait(5)
# now the droplet has been created, therefore I can use it to attach a floatingip
fip = digitalocean.FloatingIP(ip='45.55.xxx.xxx', token=droplet.token)
fip.assign(droplet_id=droplet.id)

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