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On 11/30/2015 01:28 PM, Bogdan Dobrelya wrote:
> Hello.
> Please let's make this change [0] happen to the Oslo messaging.
> This is reasonable, straightforward and backwards compatible change. And
> it is required for OpenStack applications - see [1] - to implement a
> sane HA. The only thing left is to cover this change by unit tests.
> 
> [0] https://review.openstack.org/229186
> [1]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-October/076217.html
> 

I've also looked into doing something like this for a use case very
similar to Mistral a few months back, and my investigation came to a
similar conclusion to what Medhi (sileht) commented on the above patch -
you can't do this because it changes the semantics of current cast and
call methods based on how the server is declared without the client
being aware - that's a bad way to design an API.

What I came up with as a possible design back then, in case you want to
use oslo.messaging to dispatch async tasks that should be done at least
once (for example to be safe against worker crashing), is add a new
method to the oslo.messaging client interface.

For example - we may want to call it something like ensure() or similar
so that it is clear what the semantics are, and we want to be careful to
not tie it's semantics to the AMQP model too much.

I haven't looked into how it can be implemented in depth, but it would
surely be more than your above patch, as you would need to evolve
several interfaces in oslo.messaging to make this happen.

I'm not an oslo.messaging maintainer, and am actually a total bystander
in this matter so feel free to disregard this as an irrelevant opinion,
however maybe Mehdi and some of the oslo.messaging folks will comment
further.

N.