[Openstack] cfg usage - option registration, global objects

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Tue Jun 5 17:00:54 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 12:48 -0400, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> +1 :-)

In all seriousness - Mark made two separate points. Which one are you
top-posting a +1 to?

> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Mark Washenberger
> <mark.washenberger at rackspace.com> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Please forgive the top-posting! I always get way too wordy with
> > inline replies.

<point 1>

> > Regarding configuration, I think there is another option I'd like us
> > to adopt. We should implement the code as in your option #1, but then
> > implement convenience factories that give the appearance of option #3
> > or #2, or both, you pick. From your examples it might look something
> > like this:
> >
> >    class Connection(object):
> >
> >        def __init__(self, broker_hostname, broker_port):
> >            self.cnx = self.connect(broker_hostname, broker_port)
> >
> >        def cast(self, topic, msg):
> >            self.cnx.cast(topic, msg)
> >
> >    def connection_from_global_conf():
> >        return Connection(CONF.broker_hostname, CONF.broker_port)
> >
> > I think its pretty necessary that we don't do option #3 directly.
> > There are some important use cases to consider, like migrating from
> > one rpc implementation to another where you might want an adapter
> > that can relay messages from one to the other. Also, cells with
> > kombu at least requires that one process be able to talk to multiple
> > brokers.

</point 1>

<point 2>

> > Regarding incubation, I suppose I am confused. At what point during
> > incubation do other projects start to use the shared library? I would
> > imagine the answer to be "after incubation" but it sounds like there
> > are several projects very eager to adopt rpc as soon as it lands in
> > openstack common, even before incubation is complete.
> >
> > If incubation happens before the calcifying effects of shared use
> > set in, then it sounds like a great place to address the other
> > rpc-specific concerns we've talked about. Otherwise I guess we're
> > stuck where I thought we were, where the bar needs to be set pretty
> > high to initially land in os-common.

</point 2>

Cheers,
Mark.





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