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Hi,
As Salvatore mentioned this was one of the things that we discussed at the
San Diego summit many years ago. I like the idea of using an RPC interface
to speak with Neutron (we could do a similar thing with Cinder, glance
etc). This would certainly address a number of issues with the interfaces
that we use at the moment. It is certainly something worthwhile discussing
next week.
We would need to understand how to define versioned API¹s, how to deal
with extensions etc.
Thanks
Gary

On 1/23/15, 2:59 PM, "Russell Bryant" <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

>On 01/22/2015 06:40 PM, Salvatore Orlando wrote:
>>     I also like the idea of considering the RPC interface. What kind of
>>     stability / versioning exists on the Neutron RPC interface?
>> 
>> 
>> Even if Neutron does not have fancy things such as objects with
>> remotable method, I think its RPC interfaces are versioned exactly in
>> the same way as Nova. On REST vs AMQP I do not have a strong opinion.
>> This topic comes up quite often; on the one hand REST provides a cleaner
>> separation of concerns between the two projects; on the other hand RPC
>> will enable us to design an optimised interface specific to Nova. While
>> REST over HTTP is not as bandwidth-efficient as RPC over AMQP it however
>> allow deployers to use off-the-shelf tools for HTTP optimisation, such
>> as load balancing, or caching.
>
>Neutron uses rpc versioning, but there are some problems with it (that I
>have been working to clean up).  The first one is that the interfaces
>are quite tangled together.  There are interfaces that appear separate,
>but are used with a bunch of mixin classes and actually presented as a
>single API over rpc.  That means they have to be versioned together,
>which is not really happening consistently in practice.  I'm aiming to
>have all of this cleared up by the end of Kilo, though.
>
>The other issue is related to the "fancy things such as objects with
>remotable methods".  :-)  The key with this is versioning the data sent
>over these interfaces.  Even with rpc interface versioning clear and
>consistently used, I still wouldn't consider these as stable interfaces
>until the data is versioned, as well.
>
>-- 
>Russell Bryant
>
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