Hi Devs,
We had some offline discussions regarding Airavata API and following are
some of the improvements that we decided on.
- *Change the name of AiravataManager in AiravataAPI interface*
- *Providing utility class for creating the ServiceDescriptor and all
the application creation (Look at the util class <DescriptorUtil> provided
in REST service).*
- *saveDeploymentDescription method should jus get a Host and Service
descriptor objects rather passing the names.*
- Instead of having single save method for both add and update, we
should have separate methods for those functionalities
- *Remove isExist check from the save methods, ideally when we introduce
above add and update functions separately, this will become obsolete.*
- *Use ApplicationDescriptor in all the places.*
- *Overload saveWorkflow function and pass the URI of a workflow path.*
- *Add the method - getWorkflowTemplateIds in integration tests.*
- *Adding tests for workflow metadata saving in integration test.*
- *We need fill up all the arguments in runExperiment method to show the
users how they are suppose to use the method.*
- *Adding tests for querying by Experiment name.*
- *Add tests for all the runExperiment overloaded methods.*
- *Put API comments for runExperiment and other methods.*
- *For the test case we need implement the pulling and pushing the
status of the workflow. Pulling from registry and get the pull messages
from notification.*
- *Add a stopMonitoring function to ExecutionManager*
- *Improvements to runExperiment() method
*
- we need to get rid of all 6 overloaded methods
- keeping the simple one as it is and passing a bean object for
advance cases
- giving different names for method signatures if the usage for
the API user is different
- having fine grained exception types
- ContextHeaderBuilder
- revamp the schema
- get rid of unused parameters in ContextHeaderBuilder class
- instead of having single ContextHeaderBuilder class, have
different classes according to usage
- scheduling
- output handling
- security
Plan is to do all the suggested improvements before 0.6 release except for
security section of ContextHeaderBuilder class improvement.
All your feedback is most welcome.
Thanks and Regards,
Chathuri
