[openstack-dev] [OSLO] Comments/Questions on Messaging Wiki

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
Mon Jul 15 22:23:42 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/15/2013 02:36 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > The namespace relates to the API implementation inside the receiver. The
> > way it currently works is the receiver subscribes to messages on a
> > topic/exchange pair to have AMQP route messages to it, and then it looks
> > inside the message for further dispatch to an object that knows about
> > that API. That lets the nova API implementation be split up among
> > different objects, for example. I'm not sure why it evolved that way,
> > instead of using separate topics and having the messaging layer do all
> > of the routing. Maybe we should take another look at that part of the
> > new API design.
>
> In retrospect, yes, a separate topic would have worked.  The namespace
> was very convenient for the current nova implementation, but that
> doesn't mean it was the best design.  The code that sets up which topics
> to consume from is very generic and applies to *all* services.  So,
> instead of reworking this to let it be different per-service, I did the
> namespace thing, which worked without having to change any other nova code.
>

That's a completely understandable pragmatic solution. :-)

Doug


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