Github user ProjectMoon commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/988#issuecomment-152513166
While I haven't pushed new work to this PR yet, I do have a prototype of
what I intend to do, and am looking for thoughts on it here.
My plan:
* Move MachineNameService and UUID manager into one interface. Remove the
methods from VirtualMachineNameService which are not used. Call this interface
ResourceNamingPolicy.
* Create a ResourceNamingPolicy extension registry, and a new module for
the default naming policy (which is the UUIDs ACS generates at the moment).
* When using methods from ResourceNamingPolicy, iterate through all
registered policies until one returns a name that is not null. This is in line
with other things like API authenticators, host planners, etc.
* Expand the use of the ResourceNamingPolicy beyond virtual machines and
volumes (which is what VirtualMachineName/UUIDManager touch currently). The
plan is to make use of this for these entities to begin with: VMs, volumes,
templates, security groups.
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