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On 9 March 2017 at 04:35, Ryan Brady <rbrady at redhat.com> wrote:

> At the PTG and previous discussions in IRC, I mentioned there were two
> different design ideas I had for the developer experience for custom action
> development in mistral-lib.  The purpose and intent behind the patch[1] was
> discussed in person at the PTG and that was helpful for me wrt to scope.  I
> feel it would be helpful to discuss and decide together the final piece of
> this patch.  I'd like to get any feedback on either of these two ideas as
> they will shape how developers integrate with Mistral in the future, impact
> our OpenStack integration efforts in mistral-extra.  Nothing stops a
> developer from adopting either style in their custom action libraries, but
> most will likely want to remain consistent with style present in the
> upstream code.
>
> I have created separate declaration and usage examples in hopes of
> illustrating some of the similarities and differences.  To me it seems the
> base class example is more declarative/explicit, but the mixin example is
> more extensible and dry.  Both examples reflect on backwards compatibility
> and possible changes to how mistral checks for sync/async actions and how
> to pass the context (as needed by actions that integrate with OpenStack).
>
>
> base classes declaration: https://gist.github.com/rbrady/
> ff86c484e8e6e53ba2dc3dfa17b01b09
>
> base class usage: https://gist.github.com/rbrady/
> 716a02fb2bd38d822c6df8bd642d3ea6
>

The base class approach gets my vote for two reasons:

1. It is the simplest to use and document.
2. I don't think we have enough combinations (yet?) to warrant mixins.



>
> mixins declaration: https://gist.github.com/rbrady/
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> mixins usage: https://gist.github.com/rbrady/
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Brady
> Cloud Engineering
> rbrady at redhat.com
> 919.890.8925 <(919)%20890-8925>
>
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/411412/
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