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Re: Moving nova.rpc into openstack.common

 

I just threw up a patch a little while ago:

https://review.openstack.org/6119

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Russell Bryant

On 04/02/2012 06:37 PM, Chris Behrens wrote:
> Seems like a sensible plan.  Carrot can go now.  I marked it deprecated so we can remove in folsom.  I can take care of this today, even.
> 
> On Apr 2, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Duncan McGreggor <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> +1
>>
>> Thanks for exploring this, Russell!
>>
>> Next step: getting a common REST API abstraction in place that all the
>> projects can use... ;-)
>>
>> d
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> There was a thread on this list a little while ago about moving the
>>> notification drivers that are in nova and glance into openstack.common
>>> since they provide very similar functionality, but have implementations
>>> that have diverged over time.  Is anyone actively working on this?  If
>>> so, please let me know.
>>>
>>> For the message queue notifiers, nova uses nova.rpc to do the heavy
>>> lifting.  Glance has notifiers written against the messaging libs
>>> directly.  I think it makes sense to take the nova approach.  This would
>>> mean moving nova.rpc into openstack.common before the notifiers can get
>>> moved.
>>>
>>> I have started looking at moving nova.rpc to openstack.common.rpc.  My
>>> plan is:
>>>
>>> 1) Write a series of patches that reduces coupling in nova.rpc on the
>>> rest of nova.
>>>
>>> 2) Submit changes needed to support this decoupling to openstack.common.
>>>
>>> 3) Once nova.rpc is sufficiently decoupled, move it to openstack.common.
>>>
>>> While doing the above, I want to aim for the least amount of disruption
>>> to the rpc interface as is practical.
>>>
>>> While we're at it, is it time to drop nova.rpc.impl_carrot?  It is
>>> marked as deprecated in Essex.  Is there any reason anyone would still
>>> use impl_carrot over impl_kombu?
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Russell Bryant
>>>
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