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[Julie Pichon <1326124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From past experience (...editing flavours comes to mind), it's generally
unwise for Horizon to try to work around limitations in the other
services and attempt to provide additional features not supported by the
APIs. This tends to cause bugs and confusion. I think the right way to
go about this would be to convince the other services to add an API that
lets you do this first.

There is additional complexity in managing security groups in that the
functionality can be provided by either Nova or Neutron (Horizon
supports both). Looking at the respective clients' help, currently
neither appears to provide a way to edit rules... I'll add a task on
Nova and Neutron to see what they think about this.

I suppose one of the main issue with editing flavours was that the id
matters one way or the other, so perhaps we could work around the API
limitations somewhat more transparently here...

** Tags removed: low-hanging-fruit

** Also affects: nova
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: neutron
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Allow for editing of existing Security Rules

Status in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon):
  New
Status in OpenStack Neutron (virtual network service):
  New
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  New

Bug description:
  Currently in the Horizon UI, after adding a security rule you can only
  delete it. If you mess up one of the fields, there's no edit option
  available where you could see the create dialog again, flip it from
  TCP to UDP or whatever you forgot to do, and then update the rule.
  You've got to remember everything you need to fill out, delete it, and
  then create it properly.

  It'd be much simpler if users could edit a security rule group,
  instead of having to delete and recreate.

  If there's nothing in nova that lets us edit a rule, could we fake it
  in the UI and when they "edit" a rule, we just pull out all the
  configured info, populate a create dialog with it, and then when they
  click save, it deletes the old rule and creates the updated one?

  As someone who has entered lots of security rules, I can tell you
  firsthand that it's really demoralizing when you realize you forgot to
  change TCP to UDP on your otherwise correct rule after creating it,
  and have to delete it and try again, remembering which position you
  were in on your port table so you don't start entering a different
  rule...

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