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On 08/06/2014 11:08 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 7 August 2014 15:31, Christopher Yeoh <cbkyeoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 11:58:43 +1200
>> Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> ...
>> At the moment when cleaning up we don't know if a port was autocreated
>> by Nova or was passed to us initially through the API.
>
> That seems like a very small patch to fix - record the source, use
> that info on cleanup.

It isn't a particularly small patch, but it's already been done by Aaron 
and been in review for a while now.

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/77043/

>> And there can be
>> a long period of time between the initial server creation request and
>> failure/cleanup - the API layer responds to the client well before the
>> server has successfully started or failed.
>
> Right.
>
>> I think this sort of logic is much better handled above the REST API
>> layer- which doesn't have to mean duplicated code in multiple clients
>
> It doesn't? So we'll build a stateful client side datastore, and
> provide language bindings to it from Python, Ruby, Java, etc?
>
>> - it can for example be handled by client libraries such as
>> python-novaclient or openstackclient and neutron related errors more
>> directly returned to the client rather than having them proxied
>> all the way through Nova.

I disagree that the REST API is the place for this to happen. I think a 
behind-the-REST-API notification/eventing piece is a better idea.

Best,
-jay