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<br><div><div>On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Soren Hansen wrote:</div><div>[snip]</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Or should we do away with this stuff altogether? I.e. no more looking up<br>related objects by way of __getitem__ lookups, and instead only allow<br>lookups through db methods. So, instead of<br>network['virtual_interfaces'], you'd always do<br>db.virtual_interfaces_get_by_network(ctxt, network['id']). Let's call<br>this option e).</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>The top-level docstring in nova/db/api.py says:</div><div><br></div><div><div>All functions in this module return objects that implement a dictionary-like</div><div>interface. Currently, many of these objects are sqlalchemy objects that</div><div>implement a dictionary interface. However, a future goal is to have all of</div><div>these objects be simple dictionaries.</div></div><div><br></div><div>(I wrote this particular docstring but was just capturing somebody else's email or bugfix message or some such thing).</div><div><br></div><div>If I understand your post correctly, doesn't this imply option (e)? </div><br><div><br></div><div>Lorin</div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Lorin Hochstein, Computer Scientist</div><div>USC Information Sciences Institute</div><div>703.812.3710</div><div><a href="http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin">http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>