skattoju4 opened a new pull request #4875:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/4875


   ### Description
   This PR is a fix for the data volume import and export functionality when 
using swift as secondary storage.
   
   Background:
   Secondary storage is used for templates, snapshots and iso's. A data disk is 
a volume and is meant to reside on primary storage. However, when importing a 
volume it is first uploaded to secondary storage and then copied to over to 
primary storage when attached to a VM. Similarly when exporting a volume, it is 
copied to secondary storage before it is made available to the user for 
download. When using swift as a secondary storage, an intermediate staging nfs 
store is needed when copying volumes between primary and secondary storage. 
This staging nfs store is leveraged for the volume import and export 
functionality since volumes need not have a footprint on secondary storage.
   
   Currently this functionality does not work:
   
   When importing a volume the following error is observed:
   
   `org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.VolumeObjectTO cannot be cast to 
org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.TemplateObjectTO
   `
   
   Further investigation reveals that there is no provision in the code to 
handle import of volumes. Currently only template import is supported.
   
   When exporting a volume a URL to the secondary storage is generated but it 
clicking it does not initiate a download of the exported volume. Further 
investigation revealed that the url points to a broken symlink which points to 
an invalid path on the SSVM
   
   Use Cases
   
   1. User should be able to import a volume from a URL when using swift as 
secondary storage and XenServer as the hypervisor.
   2. User should be able to export a volume to a secondary storage VM URL when 
using swift as secondary storage and XenServer as the hypervisor.
   
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   ### Types of changes
   
   - [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing 
functionality to change)
   - [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
   - [x] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
   - [ ] Enhancement (improves an existing feature and functionality)
   - [ ] Cleanup (Code refactoring and cleanup, that may add test cases)
   
   ### Feature/Enhancement Scale or Bug Severity
   This addresses https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/4874
   
   #### Feature/Enhancement Scale
   - [ ] Major
   - [*] Minor
   
   #### Bug Severity
   - [ ] BLOCKER
   - [ ] Critical
   - [ ] Major
   - [*] Minor
   - [ ] Trivial
   
   ### How Has This Been Tested?
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   1. Create data volume (non-managed storage)
   2. Attach it to a VM.
   3. Create a file system and a test file on the new data volume.
   4. Export volume.
   5. Upload exported volume to a bucket and generate a URL.
   6. Import volume back into CloudStack from URL.
   7. Attach imported disk to a VM.
   8. Verify previously created test file.
   
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