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[Doug Weimer <dougw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 01 May 2012, Everett Toews wrote:

> 2. Where should the code for Swift quotas live?
> 
> It was suggested during the session that this code could live in a
> middleware for Swift. Seems like a reasonable approach to me. I've taken a
> look at some of the code in /swift/common/middleware and it looks
> relatively straight-forward. Any thoughts or suggestions on implementing
> this as middleware?

I think a quota implementation should be split into two separate
middleware pieces; one for quota discovery and one for quota enforcement.
The discovery middleware could place the quota settings for a given tenant
into a set of X-Quota-* headers. The enforcement middleware would then
check for any existing X-Quota-* headers and take action if they were
present. This would allow a deployment to use a custom authentication
system or a new quota enforcement method more easily than if it were
combined in a single middleware.

Thanks,

Doug