[Engine-devel] [BUG] in UserMapper.java in 3.3.2

[Sven Kieske]

Hi,

I was able to track this down, thanks to the help
of Omer Frenkel:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045484

However it did cost me several days to find out what
went wrong, and I'd like to make some suggestions to
prevent such errors in the future or make them at least
documented somewhere:

It turned out, that the JSON implementation which at
least started in 3.1. was not complete and not supported.

This was not documented anywhere (at least where I looked).

So what can we do to improve this?

My suggestions would be:

1. If a new feature gets developed and (partly) released
the exact status of this feature should be documented in
the wiki/release notes/code/wherever

e.g. feature x does work via webadmin, REST-API
it does not work via java-sdk, python-sdk and CLI
it does work with data passed via XML and not with
data passed via JSON.

2. To automate the check if the feature works as intended one
could write jenkins jobs, e.g.:

start a vm via rest-api with json data

if it fails this feature does not work.

I know that my second suggestion is quite a bit of work
but ovirt would greatly benefit from the achieved robustness
and bugs would be very much more easily traceable.

what do you think?

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards

Sven Kieske

Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen