[openstack-dev] [Horizon][Swift] add meta data support for Swift to Horizon

Motonobu Ichimura motonobu at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 12:47:06 UTC 2013


Hi,

While some of the swift metadata features might be implemented in a
different way,
I think that we can implement them based on more generic way.

I'll begin to investigate how to implement them.

any suggestion would be greatly appreciated


Regards,
famao


2013/3/19 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel at chmouel.com>

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Gabriel Hurley
> <Gabriel.Hurley at nebula.com> wrote:
> > Solving it for Swift should be done in a way that can also allow
> Metadata to
> > be set for Glance images, Keystone users/projects, etc.
>
>
> Shouldn't be a bit different? I can see that tagging is a nice feature
> to have but there is some cases where you want to just add custom
> metadata on a object/container/account in Swift that doesn't mean
> tagging.
>
> A lot of swift feature are based on metada for instance when you want
> to add the Quota you would change the X-Account-Meta-Quota-Bytes
> header or if you would like to add ACL you would change the
> X-Container-Read header.
>
> Just my 2c so that feature is not just tagging[1] and we can add
> arbitary headers on Swift objects/cont/account.
>
> Chmouel.
>
> [1] Great feature to have by the way across multiple services this
> would be nice to do grouping like that.
>
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