Great, I think it is much more clear now. I also think we should rename SyncMode and SyncType, these names are confusing.
> -----Original Message----- > From: EXT Har-Tal, Liat (Nokia - IL) [mailto:liat.har-...@nokia.com] > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 9:44 AM > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: [openstack-dev] [vitrage] Synchronizer - explanation and name > refactoring > > Hi All, > > In the last days I noticed that we have a big confusion with the main > goal of the Synchronizer. This is in part due to mixed usage of the > term Synchronizer in the project. Also, most of us don't really > understand the difference between synchronizer and transformer. > > After much discussion, it was decided to change and clarify the terms > and the package structure - see more below. > > So let's make order in this mess: > > Synchronizer - Responsible for importing data into Vitrage. It is not > supposed to make any change in the data. > Transformer - Responsible for transforming the data retrieved by the > synchronizer into a Vitrage entity (vertex) and its neighbors. Each > neighbor is just a placeholder vertex and edge. > > Recently, we realized that the terminology we use is incorrect: we use > synchronizer name for both: > - General name of the whole process (connect to data source -> import > the data into Vitrage -> push it to event queue -> and transform it to > graph entities) > - For the actual connection to the data source (i.e., connection to > Nova) > > So we decided to have some name changes: > 1. Datasource - describes the data source 2. Driver - describes the > component which connect to data source itself 3. MessageFormat/ > FormatType / EventFormat - (not closed yet) instead of SyncMode. Any > suggestion is welcome... 4. Name - instead of SyncType 5. No more using > the word "plugins" > > This change causes a change the packages structure in the project. > Before the structure was: > > - Synchronizer > - Plugins > - Data source name > - Transformer > - synchronizer > > The new structure is: > > - Datasources > - Data source name > - Transformer > - driver > > Most of the refactoring has already done and pushed. > > Action items: > 1. To decide about new name for SyncMode and change it in the code 2. > SyncType refactoring 3. Documentation > > Liat. > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
