Awesome and long awaited!!!!
On 4/14/16 4:40 AM, Jeff Hair wrote: > Yesterday, we submitted this pull request: > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1492 > > This originally grew out of making the VirtualMachineName class non-static > (original PR is mentioned in the above link). We're presenting this as a > refactoring of the existing code to enable more extensibility and > flexibility, make unit testing easier, and unify the way CloudStack > generates resource names. > > There is an associated JIRA ticket at CLOUDSTACK-9003. I will be writing up > a design document for the CS wiki in the next few days. > > jburwell wanted me to open a discussion on the developer list about the PR > and how it is implemented: > > There is now a ResourceNamingPolicyManager and a bunch of > ResourceNamingPolicies. The manager exposes a method to get a policy for a > type of resource, and the naming policies generate UUIDs + resource names. > > The default naming policies generate names exactly the same way as they are > created now. This is in a new module called default-naming-policies. By > excluding this module and loading our own naming policies, we gain the > ability to change how names are generated. >
