On 05/31/2012 09:08 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:03:37PM +0800, Mark Wu wrote:
> On 05/30/2012 11:01 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:49:29PM +0800, Mark Wu wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Recently, I has been working on integrate MOM into VDSM. MOM needs
>>> to use VDSM API to interact with it. But currently, it requires the
>>> instance of clientIF to use vdsm API. Passing clientIF to MOM is
>>> not a good choice since it's a vdsm internal object. So I try to
>>> remove the parameter 'cif' from the interface definition and change
>>> to access the globally unique clientIF instance in API.py.
>> Please remind me - why don't we continue to pass the clientIF instance,
>> even if it means mentioning it each and every time an API.py object is
>> created? It may be annoying (and thus serve as a reminder that we should
>> probably retire much of clientIF...), but it should work.
>>
> In the old MOM integration patch, I passed the clientIF instance to
> MOM by the following method:
> vdsmInterface.setConnection(self._cif)
>
> Here's your comments on the patch:
>
> "_cif is not the proper API to interact with Vdsm. API.py is. Please
> change MOM to conform to this, if possible.
>
> I think that mom should receive an API object (even API.Global()!)
> that it needs for its operation. Even passing BindingXMLRPC() object
> is more APIish than the internal clientIF object."
Please do not blame me! ;-)
No body dares to blame the VDSM maintainer! :P
I do not mind passing an API.Global() that happens to hold an
internal
private reference to _clientIF. I just want that if we find the way to
obliterate clientIF, we won't need to send a patch to MOM, too.
It seems I misunderstood your previous comments. I am sorry for that.
> So I try to remove cif from API definition to make MOM can call
the
> VDSM API without having clientIF.
I do not understand - MOM could receive an API object, it does not have
to construct it by itself.
yes, we can pass an API.Global() instance to MOM, but
MOM also needs to
create API.VM instance. Without clientIF, I could pass a wrapped VM class
to MOM. But it's ugly. So I try to remove clientIF in API exposed
interface, and make the caller can use vdsm API just after importing the
module. It could be cleaner. What's your opinion?
Thanks a lot!!
Mark
Regards,
Dan.