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Revision as of 16:59, 25 July 2014
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Description
The current trove impl for loading API extensions is based on a single path which is specified in the trove conf file and then searched at trove-api start-up time to find and load extensions. While this approach is sufficient for loading trove proper extensions it becomes more painful for consumers who wish to package and / or consume trove extensions not shipped with trove proper. With the current approach, a consumer must copy his / her extension class (a concrete impl of trove.common.extensions.ExtensionDescriptor) into the path specified by the api_extensions_path conf property in trove.conf in order for it to be picked up the the trove-api extension loading. The act of copying py files into another modules install path is a bad practice and this is not a very robust / flexible approach.
What's proposed here to move to a more dynamic means to discover and load extensions using the stevedore package: http://stevedore.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
Justification/Benefits
- What is the driving force behind this change?
- Does it allow for great flexibility? Stability? Security?
Impacts
Configuration
- Does this impact any configuration files? If so, which ones?
Database
- Does this impact any existing tables? If so, which ones?
- Are the changes forward and backward compatible?
- Be sure to include the expected migration process
Public API
- Does this change any API that an end-user has access to?
- Are there any exceptions in terms of consistency with other APIs?
CLI interface
- How the command will look like?
- Does it extends the already existed command interfaces ?
ReST Part
- Which HTTP methods added ?
- Which routes were added/modified/extended?
- How does the Request body look like?
- How does the Response object look like?
Internal API
- Does this change any internal messages between API and Task Manager or Task Manager to Guest
RPC API description
- Method name.
- Method parameters.
- Message type (cast/call).
Guest Agent
- Does this change behavior on the Guest Agent? If so, is it backwards compatible with API and Task Manager?