I will fix this to make it work like the deploy operation. Not sure if I
will have time to get to it today.
Stuart
Alexey Loubyansky <mailto:alexey.loubyansky@redhat.com>
3 September 2012 10:39 PM
Sorry for the late reply, I'll cherry-pick it, ok.
One issue that I mentioned and still there is that you can't add a new
overlay with content in a single composite operation (first the content
should be uploaded then its references can be used in the overlay). So,
this command still can't be executed as part of a batch.
Alexey
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Brian Stansberry <mailto:brian.stansberry@redhat.com>
1 September 2012 2:28 AM
Do you see value in cherry-picking his patch and adjusting the command
first? The issues you find implementing the command are what led to
these changes, so it'd be nice to know your commands work before
merging his stuff.
Alexey Loubyansky <mailto:olubyans@redhat.com>
31 August 2012 8:03 PM
Great. Once it's merged I'll adjust the deployment-overlay command and
submit a pull request.
Thanks,
Alexey
Stuart Douglas <mailto:stuart.w.douglas@gmail.com>
31 August 2012 1:29 PM
I have done up an initial implementation of this here
https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/pull/2989 .
Stuart
Brian Stansberry <mailto:brian.stansberry@redhat.com>
24 August 2012 2:08 AM
On 8/23/12 3:39 AM, Emanuel Muckenhuber wrote:
> On 08/23/2012 01:11 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> Sorry for the slow responses on this thread.
>>
>> I think we should go with Stuart's approach, particularly if Alexey is
>> comfortable that the CLI can support high level commands associated with it.
>>
> Yeah, i am fine then as well - nevertheless some comments inline :)
>
Me too. ;)
>> On 8/22/12 8:22 AM, Emanuel Muckenhuber wrote:
>>> My main concern is regarding the domain mode, since the additional
>>> linking does not seem to be necessary to me and just additional steps
>>> mgmt clients have to take care of.
>>>
>>> Whereas the deployment-scanner is a single client for standalone, which
>>> is under our control. So i wanted to see if we there is a way we can
>>> make this work which also satisfies your use cases.
>>>
>>> I have two things in mind which i'll try to explain quickly:
>>>
>>> 1) you still link the overlays as part of the<deployment />, however
>>> the deploment-scanner is aware of that and won't remove deployments with
>>> overlays until you use a specific invalidation marker.
>>>
>> This requires that the overlays be controlled by the scanner as well.
>> Why? Because we don't persist the model resource for scanner-controlled
>> deployments. So if a user linked a non-scanner-controlled overlay to a
>> scanner controlled deployment (which seems quite rational if the overlay
>> involves some environmental settings that never change), the link
>> information will be lost on server reboot.
>>
> I know, but that's an ancient limitation. I guess we could just start to
> persist stuff.
>
We'd have to persist some association between a deployment and a scanner
(e.g. scanner="default" on the deployment element) and then use that to
indicate that the server should not auto-deploy on boot but should defer
to the scanner to tell it what to do. And then alter the scanner to add
logic for it to reconcile the state it sees in the scan directory vs
what the model shows.
Doable, but a fair bit of work.
I considered this before going with the "don't persist" approach. I
don't recall though if there was some fundamental problem with it that
I'm not remembering, or if it was solely that "don't persist" was
doable
within the time constraints.
>>> 2) use overlay directories - this is more the file based approach, Where
>>> we just pick the "deployment.name + suffix" for the overlay. So
there
>>> would be an automatic overlay/linking done by the deployment-scanner.
>>>
>> Same issue as 1).
>>
> Not really. It can automatically recreate the overlays therefore it does
> not require persistent information.
>
It can only recreate the association for overlays that it scans, not
ones that were added via CLI/console.
>>> 2.1) the overlay directory could be just a link to a virtual file (a
>>> shared<deployment-overlay />) [1] - so in this case the overlays are
>>> managed by the model and are not linked to the deployment lifecycle.
>>>
>> I confess I don't understand this. In particular, how does it
>> fundamentally differ from what Stuart proposes in terms of how to
>> organize the data?
>>
> Well that is the point. It's basically the same, just that it removes
> the requirement for the additional linking in the domain.
>
Ok, then I still don't understand it. If it solves a problem I'd like to
understand. Can you explain further?
>>> On 08/22/2012 01:03 AM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
>>>> So what are we going to do here? Personally I much prefer the idea of
having this stored in the model and linking it to a deployment, so the overlay lifecycle
is not tied to that of the deployment.
>>>>
>>>> Another idea I had is that we could do something like define the overlays
at domain level, but then define the links at server group or server level using the same
name. basically something like:
>>>>
>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/content=WEB-INF/web.xml
>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/content=WEB-INF/ejb-jar.xml
>>>>
>>>>
/server-group=server-group1/deployment-overlay=myOverlay/deployment=test.war
>>>>
/server-group=server-group1/deployment-overlay=myOverlay/deployment=*.war
>>>>
>>>> For standalone they would just be combined, similar to what I had below:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/content=WEB-INF/web.xml
>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/content=WEB-INF/ejb-jar.xml
>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/deployment=test.war
>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/deployment=*.war
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>> On 17/08/2012, at 11:03 PM, Emanuel
Muckenhuber<emuckenh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 08/17/2012 02:52 AM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
>>>>>> The big problem with this is that it does not work with the
deployment scanner.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, the deployment-scanner is always a story for itself. However i
think we could actually make it persist information and be aware of overlays.
>>>>>
>>>>> Having overlays as part of the deployment means the lifecycle is
managed together, so the deployment-scanner could define it's own invalidation policy.
May it be based on whether the content got removed or we have a specific marker for that.
>>>>>
>>>>> We could also think of providing a file-based overlay solution,
managed by the deployment scanner only. In the end people use the deployment-scanner for a
reason, so perhaps not having to worry about the model or "content" folder could
be interesting. This would not even need to access persistent information though. Anyway
just some ideas on the side.
>>>>>
>>>>>> It also has to be specified on every re-deploy.
>>>>> When you do a "remove" and "add" then yes. We do
have specific operations to replace the content and redeploy the deployment without
removing the information from the model.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think the simplest solution here
>>>>>> is to just move the links under the deployment-overlays element
and loose the
>>>>>> flexibility to link at different levels. e.g:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/deployment=test.war
>>>>>> /deployment-overlay=myOverlay/deployment=*.jar
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, i was not really going for the simplest solution for now - this
would most likely would be it :)
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