Hi Adam Thanks for the feedback
2014/1/3 Adam Litke <[email protected]> > On 03/01/14 12:20 +0000, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > >> Recently, Miguel Angel Ajo (CCed) has added a nice functionality to the >> implementation of setupNetworks in Vdsm: two hook points where added: >> before and after the setupNetworks verb takes place. >> [....] > > Seems like a logical thing to do. What specific mechanism do you > suggest for passing the JSON strings to the hook script? If passed as > arguments to the hook script we would need to consider shell escaping > and argv length restrictions. > > As for the libvirt domain xml we pass to other hooks, we write a temporary file and we set an environment variable pointing to it before calling the script > What about writing these out to a special file and adding a new > getContext() call to the hooking module. A script that is unconcerned > with the context would not require any changes. But a script that > wants access would simply do: > > ctx = hooking.getContext() > > and ctx would be the contents of the special file already decoded into > a native Python object for easy consumption. This could easily be > extended to any hook which may want to provide some context to > implementors. > That would be nice, so scripts written in python wouldn't need to look for, and parse the file. This is an example of a simple hook: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/20330/7/tests/functional/networkTests.py (look inside the ValidatesHook decorator) It'd be quite simplified. We would also need a "setContext()..." to update context with changes. > > One more question comes to mind: Are there any pieces of information > that we would need to redact from the context (passwords or other > sensitive information)? > > I think there is no sensitive information as far as I know. Greetings, Miguel Ángel.
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