I hate to be that guy but I have to bump this thread to try to get answer. Can anybody help me out?
On 10/28/13 4:06 PM, Drew Fisher wrote: > Chris and Phil, > > Thanks for the clue on using scheduler_hints as a template. I've > implemented a V2 API version of my extension to get started (for > stable/grizzly) and I can see all of the data moving from > nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py to nova/compute/api.py.create() -> > _create_instance() -> _validate_and_provision_instance() -> > scheduler_rpcapi.run_instance(). > > From here, I can get into compute/manager.py and in _run_instance(), I > can see that my new data is sitting in a gross triple dictionary: > > filter_properties["request_spec"]["instance_properties"]["newflag"] > > Obviously this is gross and has to be wrong but I'm not seeing what I > might have missed walking back through my extension (it's basically a > C&P clone of contrib/scheduler_hints.py) and my changes to servers.py > (stepping through pdb shows all the right things in all the right places). > > I would love to be able to post some code to show my issue, but I can't > quite do it just yet (see domain name in email address). > > Any ideas for how to get my new flags into the top level instance object > as handled by manager._run_instance()? > > Thanks for the help so far! I just need one more little piece and I'll > have it. > > -Drew > > > On 10/26/13 4:53 AM, Christopher Yeoh wrote: >> Hi Drew, >> >> Unfortunately there's not much up to date documentation on how to write >> an api extension (its on the TODO list), but as Phil mentioned looking >> at existing extensions like scheduler_hints is a good place to start. >> >> You'll need to decide whether you want to write a V2 and V3 API version >> of your extension or only V3. V3 is currently marked experimental but >> should (hopefully!) become the default API with the release of Icehouse. >> So if you submit a V2 extension you will have to also submit a V3 version. >> >> As Phil mentioned, for V2 you'll need to add both a new extension file, >> plus modify nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py to look for an pass >> the new parameter to compute_api.create. For V2 all parameters have to >> be explicitly handled in servers.py >> >> For V3 (see nova/api/openstack/compute/plugins/v3/) you will only need >> to add a new extension with no modifications to servers.py. >> access_ips.py is probably a good example for V3 to see how parameters >> can be passed to compute_api.create by an extension. In access_ips, see >> the create function in AccessIPsController and server_create in >> AccessIPs. Note that you will need to add some entries in setup.cfg for >> the V3 plugin to be detected. >> >> Depending on how your extension works you may also need to add entries >> to nova/etc/policy.json as well. >> >> Regards, >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Day, Phil <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Drew, >> >> Generally you need to create a new api extention and make some >> changes in the main servers.py >> >> The scheduler-hints API extension does this kind of thing, so if you >> look at: api/openstack/compute/contrib/scheduler_hints.py for how >> the extension is defined, and look in >> api/poenstack/compute/servers.py code for "scheduler_hints" (e.g. >> _extract_scheduler_hints() ) then that should point you in the >> right direction. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Phil >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Drew Fisher [mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>] >> > Sent: 25 October 2013 16:34 >> > To: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > Subject: [openstack-dev] extending nova boot >> > >> > Good morning! >> > >> > I am looking at extending nova boot with a few new flags. I've >> found enough >> > examples online that I have a working extension to novaclient (I >> can see the >> > new flags in `nova help boot` and if I run with the --debug flag I >> can see the >> > curl requests to the API have the data. >> > >> > What I can't seem to figure out is how nova-api processes these extra >> > arguments. With stable/grizzly bits, in >> > nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py, I can see where that data is >> > processed (in Controller.create()) but it doesn't appear to me >> that any >> > leftover flags are handled. >> > >> > What do I need to do to get these new flags to nova boot from >> novaclient >> > into nova-api and ultimately my compute driver? >> > >> > Thanks for any help! >> > >> > -Drew Fisher >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > OpenStack-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
