Instead of adding yet another parameter, could we look into adding a generic filter as in: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/ApiReference-query-DescribeInstances.html
From: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com<mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>> Reply-To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 at 1:27 AM To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Major business logic refactoring: Move from Account to UserAccount Good ideas, I’ll use them. So I think no one disagrees with this; - list VMs still has user_id, but deployVM won’t - We’ll use first user in the account if someone’s impersonating; else use logged in user to get user_id On 25-Nov-2014, at 12:17 am, Prachi Damle <prachi.da...@citrix.com<mailto:prachi.da...@citrix.com>> wrote: Hi Rohit, I see your point: when deploy VM is called by an admin impersonating another account, the user_id value will be set to logged in user, which will be the admin. And this will break your usecase. Correct? Do you think your functionality needs this usecase i.e an admin impersonating deployVm for another user? If you won't hit this scenario primarily, we can just set the user_id to first user in the account being impersonated to cover this case - just as your upgrade code for existing Vms. What do you think? Thanks, Prachi -----Original Message----- From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 11:13 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Major business logic refactoring: Move from Account to UserAccount Hi Min, Prachi, Thanks for your comments. I see your point, the use case is to list VMs for a user_id (uuid, not name). I'm going to add the arg/option the listVM api to accept user_id and return the list of VMs for that user, and add option in the UI to do the same. Note, this is not for auditing purposes (for that we have events). But, since we allow impersonation of account while deploying a VM by the same logic we should allow impersonation at the user_id as well which we only accept in the deploy VM API if an account/domain is mentioned along with the user_id. If I only use logged-in user ID, it makes implementation very simple but at the same time but sort of breaks impersonation semantics. Note: the fix will be simple, won't change IAM and this is just to add capability to list VMs for a user ID. On 21-Nov-2014, at 11:57 pm, Prachi Damle <prachi.da...@citrix.com<mailto:prachi.da...@citrix.com>> wrote: Hi Rohit, The accountId in deployVm API is serving the purpose of impersonation and can be passed typically by admin accounts to deploy VM on behalf of other User. So Ideally with IAM, this parameter should be removed from the API and impersonation should be handled separately. Keeping this goal, I think let's not add userID parameter in the API. We should default the value to the logged in user - this will prevent usecases around cross-account/cross-user scenarios. Thanks, Prachi -----Original Message----- From: Min Chen [mailto:min.c...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 8:16 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Major business logic refactoring: Move from Account to UserAccount If I understood correctly, (account, domainId) passed into deployVMCmd is used for impersonation-like behavior, that is, caller is deploying a VM on behalf of an account. Personally I don't like this kind of putting so many parameters in one API to perform several different functionalities, impersonation should be done through IAM separately. Too many parameters will just make our API semantics very hard to understand and maintain. Along this line, I will not like to see this user_id added here. Thanks -min On 11/21/14 5:20 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com<mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>> wrote: Hi Prachi, Since we¹re already allowing users to specific account and list VMs by account, following the same pattern I added the case so as to allow users to specify user_id in both list/deploy VM commands. In case the userid is not specified, in that case the logged in user¹s ID will be used. It¹s open for discussion of course, let me know if it¹s a good idea to follow the same pattern or strictly use the logged-in user¹s ID? On 21-Nov-2014, at 1:41 am, Prachi Damle <prachi.da...@citrix.com<mailto:prachi.da...@citrix.com>> wrote: Rohit, I checked the code here https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=shortlog; h= ref s/heads/useraccount-refactoring and I don't understand why we need to expose the userId parameter in the deployVm API. I think we should be using the userId of the logged in user always. Exposing the parameter at the API allows it to be set by a user to the ID of another user . Also we need validation around it to make sure it belongs to the passed account etc. + //Owner userId + @Parameter(name = ApiConstants.USER_ID, type = + CommandType.UUID, entityType = UserResponse.class, required = true, description = "the user ID of the owner, optional to use with account and domainId. If not provided logged in user's ID is used.") + private Long userId; Prachi -----Original Message----- From: Rohit Yadav [mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 6:06 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Major business logic refactoring: Move from Account to UserAccount Only one table will be affected. On 16-Nov-2014, at 3:14 am, Amogh Vasekar <amogh.vase...@citrix.com<mailto:amogh.vase...@citrix.com>> wrote: Question - What happens to the already existing VMs with entries in the DB? Do we keep it NULL? NULL will be and not useful. I think it should be okay to have a db migration path that sets user_id to the first user in account_id (which usually has the same name as account) for existing VMs. The amount of code change will be minimal. 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