Re: [Xen-API] the xapi storage interface

[Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Anil,

On 15 Jun 2012, at 16:31, Dave Scott wrote:

> task_tracking: allows long-running operations to be tracked
>  Task.cancel: cancel a long-running operation
>  Task.destroy: forget about a finished task
>  Task.list: list currently-known tasks
>  Task.stat: query the state of a particular task
>  Updates.get: block waiting for updates, with timeout

Anil wrote:
> This is an odd one to have in the storage-specific API.  Is it
> exactly the same Task API as the rest of the XenAPI, and 
> duplicated because of the rpc-light interface?
> 
> From a client perspective, it would be good to use exactly the
> same task/event/wakeup API for all operations, not just storage.

Yup, it's basically the same interface. I agree it would be better to share it 
somehow -- I'll see if I can keep it separate and stop storage-specific types 
from accreting into it. At the moment it's a bit polluted with "SR" and "VDI" 
types but I could make it more dynamic and then wrap a type-safe layer onto it 
for the storage implementation in particular.

Cheers,
Dave

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