Looks good from a cursory glance.  Hopefully it's all working for you.

On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Gavin Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a quick update, I've pushed my latest set of code tweaks up - 
> https://github.com/fatmcgav/fatmcgav-netapp/commit/7a7d18bf39cdbb04a3b0b5192929ec6a857c0a5e
> 
> Need to tidy the code up a bit, but should be able to get the gist :) Have 
> got a couple of defs which pull back the bulk of the information, and then a 
> couple that need to be called on a volume by volume basis. 
> All gets put together in instances, and provider'd up in prefetch. 
> 
> Comments welcome. 
> 
> Cheers
> Gavin 
> 
> On Friday, 29 March 2013 13:15:12 UTC, Gavin Williams wrote:
> Luke
> 
> Cheers for that info, should prive useful...
> 
> Guess I could implement a method for each property that pulls back all that 
> property values for all the volumes, and then match them up in prefetch.
> 
> Cheers 
> Gav
> 
> On 29 Mar 2013 12:49, "Luke Kanies" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> Yeah, there isn't as much consistency in API as I would like.
> 
> The way it should work, I believe, is something like:
> 
> * The Type should support an 'instances' method that returns a complete list 
> of all instances of that type that exist on the host itself.  This method 
> should not require a catalog.
> 
> * The provider should support a 'prefetch' method, which accepts a list of 
> resources from the catalog and updates them with the correct provider 
> instance, with appropriate data already filled in to reflect the system state.
> 
> * Optionally, many providers implement (I think) their own 'instances' 
> method, which returns all instances and doesn't require a catalog, to 
> implement both of the above methods.
> 
> I just looked at the Provider base class, though, and it's not at all clear 
> from this.  Part of the problem is that the system is smart enough to skip 
> providers that don't support prefetch, and the way we denote 'doesn't support 
> prefetch' is that it doesn't have the method.  Given that, I left the method 
> off of the base class.  Because 'instances' isn't used for this kind of test, 
> the base class ships with a stub method that just throws an error.
> 
> So yeah, all that's confusing, and could really use some additional work to 
> make it easier to understand, and to bring some consistency.
> 
> On Mar 29, 2013, at 12:37 PM, fatmcgav <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Luke
>> 
>> No worries.
>> 
>> For the 2 I've converted soo far, it's made quite a performance difference. 
>> Thankfully can pull back all the resources with one NetApp api call, so it's 
>> drop the resource time from 5+ seconds to sub 1 second. 
>> However was a bit confused initially, as different providers seem to use 
>> different models... Some with just prefetch, some with just instances, some 
>> with both...
>> 
>> However I'm just about to start the more complex netapp_volume provider, 
>> which has 4+ properties that have different api calls on top of the base 
>> resource list call. This is by far the slowest provider out of them with an 
>> average of 20+ seconds per run. 
>> So not sure of the best way to handle as yet.
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> Gav
>> 
>> On 29 Mar 2013 12:11, "Luke Kanies" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Gavin,
>> 
>> I'm glad to see you've sorted it out, sorry I didn't jump in before it was 
>> all resolved.
>> 
>> How has prefetching worked out for you, in terms of performance?
>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Gavin Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Afternoon
>>> 
>>> Managed to find my issue.. Variable name re-use :( 
>>> 
>>> Defined 'qtrees' as an empty array on line 3, and then populated it with a 
>>> whole load of device output on line 18 :( 
>>> 
>>> So have defined a 'qtree_instances' array on the outside to contain my 
>>> output, with qtrees being used on the inside to hold the NetApp filer 
>>> response... Latest code in Github.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Gavin 
>>> 
>>> On Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:44:39 UTC, Gavin Williams wrote:
>>> Morning all
>>> 
>>> Quick update... Looks like I managed to hack around the issue by adding the 
>>> following:
>>> 
>>> ...
>>>         ap qtree_info
>>>  
>>>         # Check if it is a NaElement
>>> 
>>> 
>>>         next unless qtree_info.respond_to?(:child_get_string)
>>>  
>>>         # Pull out the qtree name.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>         name = qtree_info.child_get_string("qtree")
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> However this shows that I'm getting a total of 78 items processed, whereas 
>>> the original array only contains 53 items... 
>>> The additional items being processed are all like: 
>>> '#<Puppet::Type::Netapp_qtree::ProviderNetapp_qtree:'.
>>> Have updated the gist with latest code and log file. 
>>> 
>>> Would like to understand where these are coming from, and if it's something 
>>> I'm doing incorrectly? 
>>> 
>>> In the mean-time, following fixing that bug, the provider now seems to work 
>>> as expected :) 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Gavin 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:32:23 UTC, Gavin Williams wrote:
>>> Afternoon all
>>> 
>>> I've started working on converting a couple more of my NetApp network 
>>> device providers to use a prefetch/flush model, as can see performance 
>>> gains available, etc... 
>>> 
>>> Anyways, I'm having issues with my netapp_qtree provider. It would appear 
>>> that somehow, an additional Puppet::Type... row is getting into an array 
>>> and breaking things... 
>>> 
>>> Have created a gist here with the details, as the log file is quite long. 
>>> Also includes the instances and prefetch def's for my netapp_qtree 
>>> provider...
>>> 
>>> As you can see on Line 337 of the log, the array contains 40 items, however 
>>> on line 734 self.instances is trying to process item 41?!?!
>>> What's also strange is that the item contents look like a Puppet Type 
>>> (#<Puppet::Type::Netapp_qtree), whereas all the others in the array are 
>>> NetApp specific items (#<NaElement:).
>>> 
>>> So, any ideas???
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Gavin 
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