Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Xen-API] [3/3] Extension of the Xen-API for managing the ACM policy (and others)

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/21/2007
12:39:49 PM:

> Hi Stefan
> 
> Just had a quick look at this patch.  Some of the work I've been
 
> doing recently is to make the XenAPI implementation inside xend a
bit  
> 'nicer'.  I want to head towards a model where all the XenAPI
classes  
> subclass XendBase.py and use auto plugging in XendAPI.py.  This
 
> should provide a more natural implementation of these classes as  
> (first class) python classes, handle all the ref / uuid mapping for
 
> you (via XendAPIStore.py)  and break the class implementation
out  
> from XendAPI.py.  Hopefully (in the future) this will also help
with  
> persistence.
> 
> If you want some example look at the recent work on XendPIF.py,  
> XendNetwork.py and the metrics classes, which have all been  
> implemented this way.

I will convert it and post this part of the patch
again.

   Stefan
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 21 May 2007, at 16:19, Stefan Berger wrote:
> 
> > This patch implements extensions for managing security policies
in  
> > xend.
> > The XSPolicy and ACMPolicy classes provide the interface for
the  
> > Xen-API
> > and implement the functionality described in the documentation.
> >
> > Some of the xend-internal code implements changing the previously
used
> > format into the format used by the Xen-API. This is mostly related
to
> > the labels and their format of <policy identifier>:<policy
> > name>:<label>.
> >
> > The acmpolicy class implements a compiler for translating an
XML  
> > policy
> > into their binary format and provides functionality for comparing
a
> > current policy against a new one when changing a policy.
> >
> > The xspolicyadmin class administers the policy of the system.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > <xend-xspolicy-xapi-xend.diff>
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