Excerpts from Matthias Runge's message of 2013-11-11 00:04:52 -0800: > On 11/10/2013 11:53 PM, John Dickinson wrote: > > A random off-the-top-of-my-head use case would be to subscribe to > > events from creating or changing objects in a particular Swift > > account or container. This would allow much more efficient listings > > in Horizon for active containers (and may also be consumed by other > > listeners too). > > > > --John > > > > yupp. > There are many many usecases for this, and we'd get rid of pulling > services for status. >
Note that Heat can also make use of this, and a need for such things came up during several session discussions. I forget who said this, but it sums up the problem: "Polling sucks" I'd hope that we keep it a public API of some sorts, so that users can also take advantage of it. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
