[Engine-devel] What type of DB inheritance to use?

[Itamar Heim]

On 05/13/2013 11:05 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 05/13/2013 10:42 AM, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
>>> IMO, the following fields will fit most providers, at least the ones we
>>> plan to support in the near future:
>>> * id
>>> * name
>>> * type
>>> * URL
>>> * requires_authentication (boolean) to support development/POC/testing...
>>> mode
>>
>> redundant with empty username/password?
>
> Empty user/password is an implementation details.
> Seems logical to me to be explicit about it.
>
>>
>>> * username
>>> * password
>>
>> do keystone based services allow to authenticate directly to them, or
>> you need an additional authentication url (to get the ticket)?
>>
>
> No, the OpenStack services require a header with the token:
> "When Keystone is enabled, users that submit requests to the Quantum service must provide an authentication token in X-Auth-Token request header. You obtain the token by authenticating to the Keystone endpoint."
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-network/2.0/content/Authentication-d1e444.html
>

so you are missing an 'authentication url' field, although i think there 
was some discussion that until we expect more than a single keystone, 
may be a config