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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I think the hyphen question is settled – we can go with hv_type and vm_mode to be in line with the rest of nova.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Now for the other bit…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">After this email thread and discussion in the IRC with those who expressed interest I have come to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I will use the name supported_hv_specs instead of supported_instances in the ComputeNode object and HVSpec for the new object. So the field type of supported_hv_specs
 will be ListOfObjectsField(‘HVSpec’).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The supported_instances field in the compute_nodes table will be left as it is. This means that supported_hv_specs in ComputeNodes will map to the supported_instances
 field in the compute_nodes table.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for helping,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Paul Murray [mailto:ptmaway@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 10 October 2014 13:00<br>
<b>To:</b> Murray, Paul (HP Cloud)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: [openstack-dev] [Nova] object field naming question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b>Dan Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:dms@danplanet.com">dms@danplanet.com</a>><br>
Date: 9 October 2014 17:40<br>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] object field naming question<br>
To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
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> The value it adds (and that an underscore would add in hvtype -><br>
> hv_type) is that the name would match the naming style for the vast<br>
> majority of everything else in OpenStack. See, for examples:<br>
<br>
Agreed.<br>
<br>
> As mentioned in the review, I disagree on this point, since "doing a<br>
> cleanup afterwards" would mean having to increment the<br>
> nova.objects.SupportedInstance model VERSION as soon as it went into<br>
> master. I say let's make the quick change now and avoid having to write<br>
> code like this in the next patchset:<br>
><br>
>  if client_version <= (1,0):<br>
>     # We renamed hvtype to hv_type in 1.1<br>
>     self.hv_type = fields.get('hvtype')<br>
<br>
Right, this becomes RPC debt if we think we might change it later. We<br>
definitely want to get it right the first time whenever possible.<br>
<span style="color:#888888"><br>
<span class="hoenzb">--Dan</span><br>
<br>
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