[openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] Concerning get_resources/get_meters and the Ceilometer API

Sandy Walsh sandy.walsh at rackspace.com
Mon Aug 19 12:27:45 UTC 2013



On 08/19/2013 05:08 AM, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18 2013, Jay Pipes wrote:
> 
>> I'm proposing that in these cases, a *new* resource would be added to the
>> resource table (and its ID inserted in meter) table with the new
>> flavor/instance's metadata.
> 
> Ah I see. Considering we're storing metadata as a serialized string
> (whereas it's a dict), isn't there a chance we fail?
> I'm not sure about the idempotence of the JSON serialization on dicts.

Yeah, using a json blob should only be for immutable data. I'm assuming
metadata can change so we'd need idempotence. I could easily see two
pipelines altering metadata fields. Last write wins. :(

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