Hi everyone, The API refactoring work for 4.1.0 is going on in api_refactoring branch: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/api_refactoring So far I've broken the user level APIs (build system is broken on the branch), admin level API is wip.
API refactoring plan and fs: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+API+refactoring Annotation refactoring: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-518 The aim is to fix api classification, grouping and eventually run as a separate server which would communicate with the data center abstraction engine called cloud-engine over its REST end point. For those who've attended Alex's talk on architectural rework, this rework would make it possible to have: - Separate end points for sysadmins and role based users. - Blacklisting of apis etc, creation of different kinds of roles (system admins could run an api-server with a set of apis they wish to offer over an endpoint by adding/removing from commands.properties.in). - Separate out api server from mgmt server, so we move towards our goal to have a cloud core; everything would talk to the scalable cloud-engine. - Grouping as per security roles (org.apache.cloudstack.api.{user, admin}) - Multiple api servers, with load balancing etc. which would make it very scalable. - Renaming package names to org.apache.cloudstack.* namespace. - A scalable queue (considering apache compliant Quartz) - Annotations to have automated docs with better notion of linking entities an arg to an API, separate out security layer etc. Right now the API layer and mgmt server (cloud-server, cloud-core) is tightly coupled. - Auto-discovery and caching of APIs for a users using a helper plugin for cloudmonkey cli, right now the API info is precached in cloudmonkey during build time. Please go through the api fs proposal. Suggestions, proposals, feedback, flames? Regards. Ref. rfc email: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cloudstack-dev/201211.mbox/%3cb1df26ecc0458748ac97cece2da98d41012fa1e1c...@sjcpmailbox01.citrite.net%3E
