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Hi,

When reading [1], it seems that Doug is implying there will be the ability
to collate multiple policy.json files together? It would be good to get
this point clarified.

Thanks,
Armando

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.policy/+bug/1428332

On 3 July 2015 at 22:12, Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Oslo and Neutron folks,
>
> Why is policy_dirs option deprecated in oslo.policy?
> In Neutron we have multiple repositories which consist of Neutron services
> and we would like to maintain policy.json separately.
> policy_dirs option looks useful for this purpose.
>
> == Detail ==
>
> Neutron project now consists of several repositories and
> they are imported when neutron-server runs.
> There are cases where it makes sense that each repository manages its
> policy.json
> and the neutron-server wants to load all related policy.json files.
> - advanced services have separate repositories and they evolve their API
> independently
> - vendor plugins/drivers in separate repositories (can) have
> vendor-specific extension API.
>   (It is not a good thing from the point of the current API discussion,
> but we have now.)
>
> An easy way is to put all related policy.json into a single directory
> lile /etc/neutron/policy.d and specify this to policy_dirs option.
>
> Looking at oslo.policy (oslo_policy/opts),
> we have a comment policy_dirs option will be removed in M cycle.
> I read the commit message where this message was added but
> I am not sure why it is a problem.
> I would like to know the reason of the deprecation and
> discuss how we can handle our use cases.
>
> Thanks,
> Akihiro
>
>
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