[openstack-dev] [Heat][Horizon] Any guidelines for naming heat resource type names?
Praveen Yalagandula
ypraveen at avinetworks.com
Thu Aug 18 20:16:59 UTC 2016
Tatiana,
Thanks for filing the bug and putting in a patch!
Cheers,
Praveen
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:45 AM Tatiana Ovtchinnikova <
t.v.ovtchinnikova at gmail.com> wrote:
> Filed a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1614000
>
>
> 2016-08-17 11:19 GMT+03:00 Tatiana Ovtchinnikova <
> t.v.ovtchinnikova at gmail.com>:
>
>> It is definitely a bug in Horizon. The additional columns
>> "Implementation", "Component" and "Resource" are representative for a
>> limited resource type group only. Since Heat allows to specify a URL as a
>> resource type, we should not use these columns at all. "Type" column and
>> filter will do just the same trick.
>>
>> Tatiana.
>>
>>
>> 2016-08-17 1:22 GMT+03:00 Rob Cresswell <robert.cresswell at outlook.com>:
>>
>>> This sounds like a bug on the Horizon side. There is/was a patch
>>> regarding a similar issue with LBaaS v2 resources too. It's likely just an
>>> incorrect assumption in the logic processing these names.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> On 16 Aug 2016 11:03 p.m., "Zane Bitter" <zbitter at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16/08/16 17:43, Praveen Yalagandula wrote:
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>> > We have developed some heat resources for our custom API server. We
>>>> > followed the instructions in the development guide
>>>> > at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/pluginguide.html and got
>>>> > everything working. However, the Horizon "Resource Types" panel is
>>>> > returning a 500 error with "TemplateSyntaxError: u'resource'" message.
>>>> >
>>>> > Upon further debugging, we found that the Horizon is expecting all
>>>> Heat
>>>> > resource type names to be of form
>>>> > <implementation>::<component>::<resource>. However, we didn't see this
>>>> > requirement in the heat development documents. Some of our resource
>>>> > types have just two words (e.g., "Avi::Pool"). Heat itself didn't care
>>>> > about these names at all.
>>>>
>>>> Given that Heat has a REST API specifically for validating templates,
>>>> it's surprising that Horizon would implement its own, apparently
>>>> incorrect, validation.
>>>>
>>>> > Question: Is there a general consensus is to enforce
>>>> > the <implementation>::<component>::<resource> format for type names?
>>>>
>>>> No. We don't really care what you call them (although using OS:: or
>>>> AWS:: as a prefix for your own custom types would be very unwise). In
>>>> fact, Heat allows you to specify a URL of a template file as a resource
>>>> type, and it sounds like that might run afoul of the same restriction.
>>>>
>>>> > If so, can we please update the heat plugin guide to reflect this?
>>>> > If not, we can file it is as a bug in Horizon.
>>>>
>>>> +1 for bug in Horizon.
>>>>
>>>> - ZB
>>>>
>>>>
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