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On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 13:43 -0700, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
> Awesome, this is exactly what I was thinking. I think this is really
> close to being usable on the nova side. First of all the
> dot.sperated.form looks better imo, and I think my code should still
> work that way as well. The other piece that is needed is mapping ids
> to names for display purposes. I did something like this for a
> prototype of names in dns caching that should work nicely. The
> question simply becomes how do we expose those names. I’m thinking we
> have to add an output field to the display of objects in the system
> showing the fully qualified name.  We can then switch the display in
> novaclient to show names instead of ids.  That way an admin listing
> all the projects in orga would see the owner as orga.projb instead of
> the id string.
> 
> The other option would be to pass names instead of ids from keystone
> and store those instead. That seems simpler at first glance, it is not
> backwards compatible with the current model so it will be painful for
> providers to switch.

-1 for "instead of". "in addition to" would have been fine, IMO.

Best,
-jay