Dmitri, If you intend to make this middleware generic and reusable between different OpenStack services, your best shot, to my understanding, will be to propose a new library in oslo-incubator.
-- Best regards, Oleg Gelbukh On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Dmitri Zimin(e) | StackStorm < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Dolph Mathews <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Dmitri Zimin(e) | StackStorm < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Terry for highlighting this: >>> >>> Yes, tenant isolation is the must. It's not reflected in the prototype - >>> it queries Solr directly; but the proper implementation will go through the >>> query API service, where ACL will be applied. >>> >>> UX folks are welcome to comment on expected queries. >>> >>> I think the key benefit of cross-resource index over querying DBs is >>> that it saves the clients from implementing complex queries case by case, >>> leaving flexibility to the user. >>> >> >> I question the need for this service, as this service **should** very >> much be dependent on the clients for this functionality. Expecting to query >> backends directly must be a misunderstanding somewhere... Start with a >> specification for filtering across all services and advocate for it on both >> existing and new APIs. >> > > > Dolph, thanks for the suggestion: we will begin drafting the API on the > wiki. > > Just to be clear: this is not filtering. Existing filtering APIs are > [getting] sufficient. This is a full text search, which doesn't exist yet. > > SWIFT is now considering Search API, ideologically similar, but limited to > Object Storage metadata [1]. Search middleware can make it generic and > extensible. And yes, middleware may be a better term, as this is not a > "service" like nova or cinder, but a layer on top. > > Do we need to clarify where search middleware shall live? > Or do we question wether there is the need for search functionality? > > What else shall we do to make the discussion forward? > > [1] > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/019014.html > > > >>> -- Dmitri. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Thierry Carrez >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Dmitri Zimin(e) | StackStorm wrote: >>>> > Hi Stackers, >>>> > >>>> > The project Search is a service providing fast full-text search for >>>> > resources across OpenStack services. >>>> > [...] >>>> >>>> At first glance this looks slightly scary from a security / tenant >>>> isolation perspective. Most search results would be extremely >>>> user-specific (and leaking data from one user to another would be >>>> catastrophic), so the benefits of indexing (vs. querying DB) would be >>>> very limited ? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thierry Carrez (ttx) >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> -Dolph >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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