There should be a facility to locate the API under a specific namespace. E.g., compute: <server>:8080/compute/ loadbalancer: <server>:8080/lb/ volume: <server>:8080/volume/
On 12/4/12 2:19 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi everyone, > >The API refactoring work for 4.1.0 is going on in api_refactoring branch: >https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-cloudstack.git;a=short >log;h=refs/heads/api_refactoring >So far I've broken the user level APIs (build system is broken on the >branch), admin level API is wip. > >API refactoring plan and fs: >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+API+refa >ctoring > >Annotation refactoring: >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-518 > >The aim is to fix api classification, grouping and eventually run as a >separate server which would communicate with the data center abstraction >engine called cloud-engine over its REST end point. > >For those who've attended Alex's talk on architectural rework, this >rework would make it possible to have: > >- Separate end points for sysadmins and role based users. >- Blacklisting of apis etc, creation of different kinds of roles (system >admins could run an api-server with a set of apis they wish to offer over >an endpoint by adding/removing from commands.properties.in). >- Separate out api server from mgmt server, so we move towards our goal >to have a cloud core; everything would talk to the scalable cloud-engine. >- Grouping as per security roles (org.apache.cloudstack.api.{user, admin}) >- Multiple api servers, with load balancing etc. which would make it very >scalable. >- Renaming package names to org.apache.cloudstack.* namespace. >- A scalable queue (considering apache compliant Quartz) >- Annotations to have automated docs with better notion of linking >entities an arg to an API, separate out security layer etc. Right now the >API layer and mgmt server (cloud-server, cloud-core) is tightly coupled. >- Auto-discovery and caching of APIs for a users using a helper plugin >for cloudmonkey cli, right now the API info is precached in cloudmonkey >during build time. > >Please go through the api fs proposal. Suggestions, proposals, feedback, >flames? > >Regards. > >Ref. rfc email: >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cloudstack-dev/201211.m >box/%3CB1DF26ECC0458748AC97CECE2DA98D41012FA1E1CAFD@SJCPMAILBOX01.citrite. >net%3E
