Re: [ovirt-devel] Vdsm api package

Il 29/Mar/2016 20:02, "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; ha scritto: > > Hi all, > > In the Vdsm call, we discussed a way to expose vdsm errors to its clients > (e.g, engine, hosted engine agent/setup). > > The idea is to have a vdsmapi package, holding: > - errors.py - all public errors > - events.py - all events sent by vdsm > - client.py - library for communicating with vdsm > - schema.py - the client will use this to autogenerate online help and > validate messages > - schema.yaml - we probably need several files (gluster, events, etc.) > > This will allow other projects talking with vdsm to do: > > from vdsmapi import client, errors > ... > try: > client.list(vmId="xxxyyy") > except errors.NoSuchVM: > ... > > (this is a fake example, the real api may be different) > > Engine can build-require vdsmapi, and generate java module with the > public errors from > vdsmapi/errors.py module, instead of keeping this hardcoded in engine, > and updating > it every time vdsm adds new public error. > > Vdsm will use this package when building response to clients. > > Edi was concerned about sharing the errors module, so maybe we need a > package: > > vdsmapi/ > errors/ > network.py > virt.py > storage.py > gluster.py > > We can still expose all the errors via errors/__init__.py, so clients > do not have to care about > the area of the application the error come from. > > Thoughts? For which version is this proposal targeted? 4.1?