[neutron][opencontrail]Trunk ports doesn't have standard attributes

Gleb Zimin gzimin at mirantis.com
Wed May 11 12:34:40 UTC 2022


Hi Akihiro, thanks for reply.

The thing is that description and other standard attributes don't work only
with trunks. I can add descriptions, tags to neutron "core" objects such as
networks, subnets, ports etc.
Inheriting class StandardAttrDescriptionMixin didn't help, unfortunately.

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 4:16 PM Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gleb,
>
> The standard attributes are populated by StandardAttrDescriptionMixin [1].
> At a quick glance, the OpenContrail core plugin (both
> NeutronPluginContrailCoreV3 or NeutronPluginContrailCoreV2) inherits
> NeutronPluginContrailCoreBase [2] which inherits NeutronPluginBaseV2
> rather than NeutronDbPluginV2.
> Thus, what StandardAttrDescriptionMixin does is not available in your case.
> For best case, inheriting StandardAttrDescriptionMixin in the core
> plugin addresses your issue, but I am not sure.
>
> From the initial implementation of Contrail plugin, Contrail plugin
> inherits NeutronPluginBaseV2 instead of NeutronDbPluginV2.
> Most logics behind the neutron API are implemented by
> NeutronDbPluginV2 and perhaps the OpenStack documentation
> assumes how NeutronDbPluginV2 behaves. However, Contrail plugin did
> not choose this way and implemented all behaviors
> behind the neutron API by its plugin, so Contrail plugin needs to
> implement almost all logics in NeutronDbPluginV2 by itself.
> I wonder if the issue you hit comes from this situation. I don't know
> why this way was chosen but this is the real situation.
>
> Hope it may help you a bit.
>
> [1]
> https://opendev.org/openstack/neutron/src/branch/master/neutron/db/standardattrdescription_db.py
> [2]
> https://gerrit.tungsten.io/r/gitweb?p=tungstenfabric/tf-neutron-plugin.git;a=blob;f=neutron_plugin_contrail/plugins/opencontrail/contrail_plugin_base.py;h=7bb7b54ab7bb35ec2193f2637f622fac8f39aed5;hb=refs/heads/master
>
> Thanks,
> Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 11:34 PM Gleb Zimin <gzimin at mirantis.com> wrote:
> >
> > Environment: Openstack Victoria, OpenContrail (TungstenFabric) R2011.
> > Problem: Trunk ports doesn't have standard attributes such as
> description, timestamp.
> > I have an environment where core plugin is OpenContrail. OpenContrail
> has tf-neutron-plugin for proper work with neutron. There is TrunkPlugin,
> that proxies all trunk-related request to the OpenContrail backend. Here is
> the link for this plugin.
> https://gerrit.tungsten.io/r/gitweb?p=tungstenfabric/tf-neutron-plugin.git;a=blob;f=neutron_plugin_contrail/plugins/opencontrail/services/trunk/plugin.py;h=35fc3310911143fd3b4cf8997c23d0358d652dba;hb=refs/heads/master
> > According to the openstack documentation: Resources that inherit from
> the HasStandardAttributes DB class can automatically have the extensions
> written for standard attributes (e.g. timestamps, revision number, etc)
> extend their resources by defining the ‘api_collections’ on their model.
> These are used by extensions for standard attr resources to generate the
> extended resources map.
> > As I understood, it works only for plugins, which using Openstack
> database. For example, openstack native trunk plugin has models.py file
> where we can see this inheritance.
> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/services/trunk/models.py#L26
> > In case of OpenContrail+OpenStack Trunk plugin only redirect requests.
> > What can I do to make Contrail Trunk plugin works in the same way?
> > I'll appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
>
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