<div dir="ltr">In general, I agree with Jay about the opaqueness of the names. I see however good reasons for having user-defined unique attributes (see  Clint's point about idempotency).<br><div>A middle ground here could be granting to the users the ability to specify the resource ID.</div><div>A similar proposal was made some time ago by Eugene [0]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span>[0] <a class="linkclass" href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-September/046150.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-September/046150.html</a></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Mark McClain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@mcclain.xyz" target="_blank">mark@mcclain.xyz</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class=""><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 11, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Jay Pipes <<a href="mailto:jaypipes@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaypipes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">I'm generally in favor of making name attributes opaque, utf-8 strings that are entirely user-defined and have no constraints on them. I consider the name to be just a tag that the user places on some resource. It is the resource's ID that is unique.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">I do realize that Nova takes a different approach to *some* resources, including the security group name.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">End of the day, it's probably just a personal preference whether names should be unique to a tenant/user or not.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Maru had asked me my opinion on whether names should be unique and I answered my personal opinion that no, they should not be, and if Neutron needed to ensure that there was one and only one default security group for a tenant, that a way to accomplish such a thing in a race-free way, without use of SELECT FOR UPDATE, was to use the approach I put into the pastebin on the review above.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></div></blockquote><br></div></span><div>I agree with Jay.  We should not care about how a user names the resource.  There other ways to prevent this race and Jay’s suggestion is a good one.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>mark</div><div><br></div><br></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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