[Engine-devel] restapi: 'gluster' prefix

[Michael Pasternak]

On 05/08/2012 12:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 08:13 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 05/07/2012 07:06 PM, Shireesh Anjal wrote:
>>> On Monday 07 May 2012 02:06 AM, Ayal Baron wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> i can't see any justification for the 'gluster' prefix,
>>>>> as this is only additional /service/ provided by the project,
>>>>> and Gluster now is a part of the RHT.
>>>> I believe there needs to be an indication which service this is about.
>>>> If we will support provisioning other storage types which also have
>>>> volumes then we'd want a way to differentiate.
>>>> However, isn't there a way to simply add gluster as the name space?
>>>> i.e. somthing like: /api/gluster/.../volumes ? (instead of 'cluster'
>>>> as it is redundant imho)
>>>
>>> A gluster volume is a cluster level entity, and hence
>>> "/api/.../clusters/{cluster:id}" seems like the right parent URI for the
>>> gluster volumes collection resource.
>>
>> that's true for all other root entities as well:
>> - VM is DC/cluster level
>> - template is DC level
>> - disk is storage domain level
>> - network is DC level
>> - hosts are cluster level (for now)
>>
>> yet all of them have their own root collections as well.
>>
>> I think glustervolumes seems safest/most reasonable for now (either at
>> cluster level or root level as well)
> 
> thinking about this some more, I'm for
> 
> cluster/xxx/gluster_volumes.
> 
> reasoning:
> 1. use gluster_volumes for now
> avoids potential conflicts with non-gluster volumes

why not having type in volume?,

> 
> 2. start under cluster entity or root collection
> going with the argument of can the entity move (host and vm can move, but a gluster_volume cannot move between clusters), I'm for going with gluster_volumes under the
> cluster entity, and not the root collection.

+1

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Michael Pasternak
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