Thank you Ignasi and Everett for the detailed explanation. That was really helpful information.
Regards, -Jeffrey On 2/28/14 7:53 AM, "Everett Toews" <everett.to...@rackspace.com> wrote: >I think the piece you might be missing is the ServerAsyncApi [1]. The >methods in ServerAsyncApi map to the methods in ServerApi. The >annotations on the methods in ServerAsyncApi are processed by the >RestAnnotationProcessor. > >Everett > >[1] >https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/openstack-nova/src/mai >n/java/org/jclouds/openstack/nova/v2_0/features/ServerAsyncApi.java#L224-2 >25 > > >On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:07 AM, Jeffrey Nguyen (jeffrngu) ><jeffr...@cisco.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> Thank you for the pointers on how ServerApi is implemented. I'm still >> having trouble understanding how each of the methods defined in >>ServerApi >> class is translated into Rest calls to the underline OpenStack. >> >> Take the ServerApi.create() method as an example. How is the invocation >> to this method mapped into a Rest call in RestAnnotationProcessor? I >> know what the request and response for this particular Rest API looks >>like >> based on the test code. However, I don't really see the connection >> between ServerApi and RestAnnotationProcessor. It looks like >> ContextBuilder is also involved. >> >> Could you or someone on the @Dev mailing list shed some lights on this? >> >> Thanks, >> -Jeffrey >> >> On 2/27/14 2:52 PM, "Jeffrey Nguyen (jeffrngu)" <jeffr...@cisco.com> >>wrote: >> >>> Thanks Andrew for the quick reply. >>> >>> JCLOUDS-416 seems to deal with the ability to assign a list of private >>> network UUIDs to a template via the networks() method. I'm aware of >>>this >>> new enhancement in 1.7.1 and already using it. >>> >>> What I'm trying to do is be able to specify a private IP address for >>>each >>> of those network UUIDs. What I observe now is for each of the network >>> UUIDs I specify, when I create a new node, OpenStack assigns a random >>>IP >>> for that particular network. I want to be able to tell >>>jCloud/OpenStack >>> to use a fixed private IP address. >>> >>> It looks like jClouds currently does not support this, so I'm trying to >>> see what's involved to add that feature. >>> >>> Any pointer on how to go about doing that? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Jeffrey >>> >>> >>> On 2/27/14 2:27 PM, "Andrew Phillips" <aphill...@qrmedia.com> wrote: >>> >>>>> I'm trying to see if it's possible to modify the create() method so >>>>> that I can inject the list of private IP addresses instead of taking >>>>> random values assigned by OpenStack. >>>> >>>> I think JCLOUDS-416 [1] might help you, if I am understanding your >>>> question correctly..? >>>> >>>> ap >>>> >>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-416 >>> >> >
