My understanding: For now, we use the term SPI to refer to the internal "public" interface that one Airavata component (say, the registry) exposes to other Airavata components. This is corresponds to Saminda's developer group #1. In the future, we may formalize these interfaces in Thrift. Then this could be useful for developers in Saminda's group #2.
This isn't the classic usage of SPI, as Saminda points out. Is there a better term we should use? Marlon On 1/24/14 3:10 PM, Saminda Wijeratne wrote: > All the above components correspond to 2 developer parties that could work > on them. One set of developers will be using those components to do some > task while the 2nd set of developers will be implementing the interfaces of > those components to extend the component functionalities. IMO the word SPI > makes more sense only for the latter set of developers. Am I to understand > that the renaming is for these developers only? > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Marlon Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No discussion on this. I am +1 on the proposed API-SPI distinction, >> but I just noticed that Suresh was also suggesting some namespace changes. >> >> >> Marlon >> >> On 1/23/14 2:41 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> We have been overloading the use of the term API within Airavata. We >> discussed this few time, but how about we take an action and rename the >> internal component level interfaces to SPI and retain the use of API for >> only the external facing public API. >>> I am suggesting the following: >>> >>> We will have Airavata API grouped by functionality (as it is today with >> may be minor enhancements): Application Catalog (application interface, >> application deployment and host descriptions), User Management, Security >> Credential Management, Execution Management & Metadata and Provenance >> Management. >>> For now leave the messaging system as a API as it can be called upon by >> external clients. >>> For SPI: >>> Orchestrator SPI >>> Workflow Interpreter SPI >>> GFac SPI >>> Registry SPI >>> Credential Store SPI >>> >>> If we all agree to change this, I am willing to do the dirty work of >> changing the namespaces and such and bring the code to a build able stage. >> But that will require a code freeze for few hours. >>> Suresh >>> >>> >>
