On 12/10, Doug Davis wrote: > > All, > CIMI says: Each resource in the CIMI model has an attribute called > "properties." Consumers, when creating or updating a resource, may store > any name/value pair in the "properties" attribute. CIMI Providers shall > store and return these values to the Consumer. There is no obligation for > the Provider to understand or take any action based on these values; they > are there for the Consumer's convenience. Providers shall not add elements > to this "properties" attribute.
So if I understand this properly, we should not add 'machine_image' and 'credential' to the machine properties if client does not set them upon machine creation time or machine update. I'm currently working on different scenario: 1. In Deltacloud API we have 'realms' that maps to 'Cluster' in oVirt or 'Datastore' in VSphere or the 'Zone' in EC2 (us-west1, etc..). When creating Machine using CIMI, I was not able to find any 'matching' entity that we can use. So we plan to use this 'workaround': 2. Consumer create a new MachineTemplate with: <property key='realm_id'>us-west1</property> 3. Consumer then create new Machine using that MachineTemplate 4. Provider then parse 'realm_id' property and launch the Machine in corrent zone/cluster/datastore. Is this correct, or there is a better way how to do it? -- Michal > > DC returns for /machines: > <Machine><property key="credential"> > http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/credentials</property><property > key="machine_image">http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/machine_images/img3 > </property><cpu>4</cpu><operation rel=" > http://schemas.dmtf.org/cimi/1/action/restart"; href=" > http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/machines/inst19/restart"/><operation rel=" > http://schemas.dmtf.org/cimi/1/action/stop"; href=" > http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/machines/inst19/stop"/><operation rel=" > http://schemas.dmtf.org/cimi/1/action/capture"; href=" > http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/machine_images"/><volumes href=" > http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/machines/inst19/volumes"/><disks href=" > http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/machines/inst19/disks"/> > <state>STARTED</state><created>2012-12-07T17:53:19-05:00</created><id> > http://api.deltacloud.org/cimi/machines/inst19 > </id><name>cimi_machine_from_templatejson</name><description> Created > machine from templatejson</description><memory>12582912</memory></Machine> > > I think these extensions need to be serialized as top-level attributes on > resources instead of using "properties". > > thanks > -Doug > ________________________________________________________ > STSM | Standards Architect | IBM Software Group > (919) 254-6905 | IBM 444-6905 | [email protected] > The more I'm around some people, the more I like my dog. -- Michal Fojtik <[email protected]> Deltacloud API, CloudForms
