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Have a question regarding calling an external SDN controller in a plugin.
The ML2 model brings up the fact that it is preferred not to call an
external controller within a database session by splitting up each call
into two calls: *_precommit and *_postcommit. Makes sense.

Looking at the existing monolithic plugins, I see some plugins that do not
follow this approach and have the call to the controller from within a
session. The obvious benefit of this approach would be a simpler cleanup
code segment for cases where the call to controller fails. So my question
is whether it is still OK to use this simpler approach in monolithic
plugins. As we move to the ML2 model, we will be using the ML2 approach but
in the meantime, we leave the option of calling the controller within a
session as an OK option. Would that be reasonable?

-Mohammad

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