On 03/18/2014 10:08 AM, Nikolay Markov wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > We're going towards moving all business logic from handlers to > so-called "objects" or "REST objects" like they did it in Ironic. So, > handlers are now becoming just simple access points and implement > common logic for almost all cases. All they do is calling some object > methods. > > This is a part of refactoring which leads to three things: > > * Moving towards Oslo (and become closer to OpenStack community this way) > * Get rid of "spaghetti" business logic and incapsulate it inside > objects (especially DB actions). > * Stabilizing our REST API - all handlers should inherit from a basic > ones and just use custom validators and, for example, custom update() > method of a corresponding object.
JFYI: Please consider introducing the object versioning support as well - see unified object model for Nova, for example. Would be very useful for upgrading feature... I've started the discussion here https://lists.launchpad.net/fuel-dev/msg00640.html https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/nailgun-unified-object-model https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nailgun-unified-object-model Feel free to address any related Nailgun REST API changes there as well. > > This is actually a long and difficult process, so we're trying to do > it step by step. That's why there are no particular bugs or blueprints > linked to these PRs, however they exist on Launchpad and are included > into our plans for 5.0. For example, > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/nailgun-objects-flow . > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Ryan Moe <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm adding some new API handlers and came across the changes here: >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66336/ and here: >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/72937/. These are fairly large changes that >> were accompanied by a single line commit message and no link to a bug or >> blueprint. >> >> What were the motivations behind these changes? How does this change the >> process of adding new API handlers going forward? >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fuel-dev >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fuel-dev >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- Best regards, Bogdan Dobrelya, Skype #bogdando_at_yahoo.com Irc #bogdando -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fuel-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fuel-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
