[Openstack-operators] [Openstack] Certifying SDKs

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 19:50:36 UTC 2017


Joe,

+1 to edit the sheet directly.

Thanks,
Dims

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Joe Topjian <joe at topjian.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been meaning to reply to this thread. Volodymyr, your reply reminded me
> :)
>
> I agree with what you said that the SDK should support everything that the
> API supports. In that way, one could simply review the API reference docs
> and create a checklist for each possible action. I've often thought about
> doing this for Gophercloud so devs/users can see its current state of what's
> supported and what's missing.
>
> But Melvin highlighted the word "guaranteed", so I think he's looking for
> the most common scenarios/actions rather than an exhaustive list. For that,
> I can recommend the suite of Terraform acceptance tests. I've added a test
> each time a user has either reported a bug or requested a feature, so
> they're scenarios that I know are being used "in the wild".
>
> You can find these tests here:
> https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-openstack/tree/master/openstack
>
> Each file that begins with "resource" and ends in "_test.go" will contain
> various scenarios at the bottom. For example, compute instances:
> https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-openstack/blob/master/openstack/resource_openstack_compute_instance_v2_test.go#L637-L1134
>
> This contains tests for:
>
> * Basic launch of an instance
> * Able to add and remove security groups from an existing instance
> * Able to boot from a new volume or an existing volume
> * Able to edit metadata of an instance.
> * Able to create an instance with multiple ephemeral disks
> * Able to create an instance with multiple NICs, some of which are on the
> same network, some of which are defined as ports.
>
> Terraform is not an SDK, but it's a direct consumer of Gophercloud and is
> more user-facing, so I think it's quite applicable here. The caveat being
> that if Terraform or Gophercloud does not support something, it's not
> available as a test. :)
>
> Melvin, if this is of interest, I can either post a raw list of these
> tests/scenarios here or edit the sheet directly.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Volodymyr Litovka <doka.ua at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Melvin,
>>
>> isn't SDK the same as Openstack REST API? In my opinion (can be erroneous,
>> though), SDK should just support everything that API supports, providing
>> some basic checks of parameters (e.g. verify compliancy of passed parameter
>> to IP address format, etc) before calling API (in order to decrease load of
>> Openstack by eliminating obviously broken requests).
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On 12/11/17 8:35 AM, Melvin Hillsman wrote:
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> On the path to potentially certifying SDKs we would like to gather a list
>> of scenarios folks would like to see "guaranteed" by an SDK.
>>
>> Some examples - boot instance from image, boot instance from volume,
>> attach volume to instance, reboot instance; very much like InterOp works to
>> ensure OpenStack clouds provide specific functionality.
>>
>> Here is a document we can share to do this -
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cdzFeV5I4Wk9FK57yqQmp5JJdGfKzEOdB3Vtt9vnVJM/edit#gid=0
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Melvin Hillsman
>> mrhillsman at gmail.com
>> mobile: (832) 264-2646
>>
>>
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