<div dir="ltr">Your answer has made everything clear, Alexey.<div><br></div><div>And I will take into consideration of the neighbor transformer in static datasource transformer implementation.<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 2:22 PM Weyl, Alexey (Nokia - IL) <<a href="mailto:alexey.weyl@nokia.com">alexey.weyl@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="m_3802652275500988555WordSection1 gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Hi,<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Yes, the entity_type is datasource_type, and the entity_id is the resources’ id which came from it’s datasource.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">The example is correct, and just for the clarification, the “12345678” is the id of that entity in the datasource.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Another clarification that I want to make sure, is that the static datasource (and actually each datasource), retrieves the transformer of the neighbor from
the transformers dictionary that each transformer holds, and using the neighbors’ transformer it creates the placeholder of the neighbor (this is because each transformer knows exactly how to build it’s own placeholder).<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Alexey<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg"> Yujun Zhang [mailto:<a href="mailto:zhangyujun%2Bzte@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">zhangyujun+zte@gmail.com</a>]
<br class="gmail_msg">
<b class="gmail_msg">Sent:</b> Monday, December 05, 2016 2:38 AM</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_3802652275500988555WordSection1 gmail_msg"><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
<b class="gmail_msg">To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)<br class="gmail_msg">
</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_3802652275500988555WordSection1 gmail_msg"><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Subject:</b> [ALU] Re: [openstack-dev] [ALU] Re: [ALU] [vitrage] datasource driverreturnsentities only?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
</div>
</div></div></div></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_3802652275500988555WordSection1 gmail_msg"><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Thanks for clarification.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Is `entity_type` equivalent to datasource type? And `entity_id` should be interpreted by the related datasource, is that right.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">For example, "RESOURCE:nova.host:12345678" is from `nova.host` datasource and `12345678` is how `nova.host` identify a resource.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">--<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Yujun<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 4:35 PM Weyl, Alexey (Nokia - IL) <<a href="mailto:alexey.weyl@nokia.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">alexey.weyl@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Hi Yujun,</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">I see the confusion.</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">The way we find the resource entity (it’s different than finding the alarm
entity, but it’s ok because the static datasource is defining relationships between resource entities) is in the following way:</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Each entity has a vitrage_id which is defined by “RESOURCE:<entity_type>:<entity_id>
(we are planning in the very near future to change the vitrage_id to be a UUID, but at the moment your change doesn’t need to refer to that), for example: “RESOURCE:nova.host:12345678”.</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">So in this way all you need to know about the other entity is it’s <entity_type>
and it’s <entity_id>.</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">BR,</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Alexey</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg">From:</span></b></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg">
Yujun Zhang [mailto:<a href="mailto:zhangyujun%2Bzte@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">zhangyujun+zte@gmail.com</a>]
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
<span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Sent:</b> Thursday, December 01, 2016 4:16 PM</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
<span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg">Subject:</span></b></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg">
[ALU] Re: [openstack-dev] [ALU] [vitrage] datasource driver returnsentities only?</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Another question, how do we describe an entity from
<b class="gmail_msg">another</b> datasource in static datasource config?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">In the test resources of static_physical datasource, it seems to be referred as following. Does it means that it will be `nova.host` to find the matched resource? If so, how will
`nova.host` identify the resource, by name or by id?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<pre style="background:#2b2b2b" class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#cc7832" class="gmail_msg">relationships:</span></b></span><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#cc7832" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"> </span></span></b><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg">- </span></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#cc7832" class="gmail_msg">type: </span></b></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg">nova.host</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"> </span></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#cc7832" class="gmail_msg">name: </span></b></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg">host-2</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"> </span></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#cc7832" class="gmail_msg">id: </span></b></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg">2</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"> </span></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#cc7832" class="gmail_msg">relation_type: </span></b></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"menlo","serif";color:#a9b7c6" class="gmail_msg">attached</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></pre>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:50 PM Weyl, Alexey (Nokia - IL) <<a href="mailto:alexey.weyl@nokia.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">alexey.weyl@nokia.com</a>> wrote:<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Hi Yujun,</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Get_all does returns a list of entities to be sent.</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Each event that is sent from the driver to the processor contains also all
the details of the neighbors that it connects to.</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">For example, the event and data that we receive from nova about an instance
also contains the host (compute) that it sits on, and that is how we decide to connect it to the correct host.</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">I think it is ok that the event of static (from driver to the processor) will
contain for each entity it neighbors that it is supposed to be connected to.</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">BR,</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Alexey</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg">From:</span></b></span><span class="m_3802652275500988555gmailmsg gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg">
Yujun Zhang [mailto:<a href="mailto:zhangyujun%2Bzte@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">zhangyujun+zte@gmail.com</a>]
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
<span class="m_3802652275500988555m1541534015525735815gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Sent:</b> Thursday, December 01, 2016 3:20 PM</span><br class="gmail_msg">
<span class="m_3802652275500988555m1541534015525735815gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)</span><br class="gmail_msg">
<span class="m_3802652275500988555m1541534015525735815gmailmsg gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Subject:</b> [ALU] [openstack-dev] [vitrage] datasource driver returns entities only?</span></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div class="gmail_msg">
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt" class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">During the implementation of static datasource driver[1], I got a question on the return format of `get_all` method.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">If I understand correctly, it should return a list of entities to be sent to the queue. Does it infer that the relationship should be embedded in entity, just like the legacy static_physical
datasource?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Suppose a link between two switches are created, how should we emit this change in `get_all` or `get_changes`?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Currently I made a compromise by emitting the relationship as an update of the connected entity. This is not very elegant and it seems we are going back to the legacy static_physical
datasource.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">[1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/405354/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/405354/</a> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">--<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Yujun<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">__________________________________________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)<br class="gmail_msg">
Unsubscribe: <a href="http://OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">
OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe</a><br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">__________________________________________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)<br class="gmail_msg">
Unsubscribe: <a href="http://OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">
OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe</a><br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div></div></div>
__________________________________________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">
OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)<br class="gmail_msg">
Unsubscribe: <a href="http://OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe</a><br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br class="gmail_msg">
</blockquote></div></div></div></div>