Great work Seif, thanks for the slides. I hope you stay involved with the community.
-sebastien On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Seif Eddine Jemli <seifeddineje...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As you probably know, I have worked on this project whose goal is making > the GUI support adding primary storage to CS that is based on storage > plug-ins. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Create+GUI+to+add+primary+storage+based+on+plug-ins > > The pencils down firm deadline was Monday the 18th. I spent yesterday > preparing a presentation that summarizes my GSoC tasks from this summer. > > Here is the link to the presentation: > > http://fr.slideshare.net/seif_100/seif-mike-gsoc2014cloudstack > <http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.slideshare.net%2Fseif_100%2Fseif-mike-gsoc2014cloudstack&h=QAQEcJBPc> > > > > I have worked mainly on two tasks: > > * The first task I worked on was adding support into CloudStack's GUI to > enable admins to add Primary Storage that is based on a custom plug-in. > Prior to this, admins needed to perform this task either via CloudStack's > CLI, its API, or some other tool that leveraged CloudStack's CLI or its API. > > * The other task was adding the following GUI control to CloudStack: > > http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/ > > This control replaces the need for admins to type in a comma-separated list > of what CloudStack calls storage tags (we were also able to apply this > control to what CloudStack calls host tags). > > As part of this process, I needed to create two new API calls to CloudStack > and invoke them from the GUI. These API calls retrieve the current list of > storage tags or host tags and populate them into the GUI control. The admin > can then either select one or more existing tags and/or add new ones. > Overall, this feature will make it much easier for admins to avoid input > errors. > > GUI forms that make use of this new control include the following: > > -Add Primary Storage > > -Add Host > > -Add Compute Offering > > -Add Disk Offering > > Two detail views make use of this new control for editing tags: > > -Edit mode for a primary storage > > -Edit mode for a host > > These two tasks were completely fulfilled, and I hope that they will be > useful for the CloudStack admins. > > I would like to thank my mentor, Mike Tutkowski, for his help and guidance > during the project. I would also like to thank the "Apache Cloudstack > Community" members for their helpful answers. > > The GSoC experience was very good overall, with especially a lot of > learning. That being the case, I'll probably apply next year for another > project. > > Beyond GSoC, I am thinking of modifying the URL input on the "Add Primary > Storage" form to make it more user friendly by accepting "key-value" inputs. > > Thanks everyone, > > Seif
