+1

I will work on merging Query API patches to master.

Thanks,
Prachi

-----Original Message-----
From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:10 AM
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] EC2 QUERY API Pending Merge 

+1

On 1/31/13 9:50 AM, "Animesh Chaturvedi" <animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com>
wrote:

>IMO Likitha you have done best given our current limitation and I think 
>it's ok to checkin your patches. When do you expect to finish the unit 
>test framework?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Likitha Shetty [mailto:likitha.she...@citrix.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:50 PM
>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] EC2 QUERY API Pending Merge
>> 
>> I would like to add that all the patches that have been submitted for 
>>review  (corresponding to the supported EC2 API's) have been 
>>extensively tested using  boto scripts and the AWS Java SDK. For e.g. 
>>for patch  https://reviews.apache.org/r/8480/ (EC2AttachVolume) the 
>>following manual  tests were performed,
>> 
>> 1.       Attach volume to an existing instance
>> 
>> 2.       Attach volume to multiple instances
>> 
>> 3.       Attach volume using invalid values for each of the parameters
>>- invalid
>> instance id, invalid device id, instance id corresponding to a vm in 
>>the invalid  state
>> 
>> And for every test the response and behavior was verified against AWS
>>EC2
>> document.
>> 
>> I also see that some work has been going on to automate EC2 testing 
>>using ec2  test suite provided by jClouds [1]. I will let Anshul speak 
>>more on that.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We don't currently have a unit test framework in place for AWSAPI. To 
>>write  unit tests for the patches that were sent for EC2 Query API, an 
>>attempt was  made at writing the framework.
>> 
>> But I faced the following issues -  for some of the internal classes 
>>there is no  way to access the member variables so we can pass in a 
>>mock (for e.g. a setter  method or a constructor which takes a 
>>parameter). And all of the internal  classes of awsapi don't follow 
>>any CloudStack manager/dao design and hence  cannot be injected using 
>>MockComponentLocator. So, we could instead try to  mock CloudStack 
>>servlet and return dummy responses to awsapi http calls. But  as 
>>Prachi mentioned this would need some more analysis and time to code.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> With the above in consideration, is it possible to commit these 
>>patches to  master for 4.1 while we continue to work on writing a 
>>unit-test framework for  AWSAPI?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cloudstack-
>> dev/201210.mbox/%3C7914B38A4445B34AA16EB9F1352942F1012F109D6278%
>> 40SJCPMAILBOX01.citrite.net%3E
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Likitha
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Prachi Damle [mailto:prachi.da...@citrix.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:29 AM
>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: [DISCUSS] EC2 QUERY API Pending Merge
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have reviewed the patches for the  [EC2 Query API] support in 
>>awsapi and  they look good. However there are no unit tests added 
>>[like many other feature  branches].
>> 
>> So the merge of these patches is pending.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Should I merge them to master, since  4.1 release may miss out EC2 
>>Query API  support.
>> 
>> Given that EC2 Soap API is being deprecated by AWS, this feature is 
>>definitely a  value-add to apache 4.1 release IMHO.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I understand that since awsapi holds most of its logic in a servlet 
>>and calls  CloudStack over http, writing unit tests to mock up the 
>>servletcontainer and a  mock CloudStack servlet is a bigger task.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So Is it reasonable to commit these patches to master for 4.1 and 
>>develop a  unit-test framework for awsapi in the coming bug fixing 
>>phase?
>> 
>> Please comment.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Prachi
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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