[wildfly-dev] Management Model: Squatter Resources

[David M. Lloyd]

The main advantage of polymorphism (which is really just a way of saying 
"decoupling model location from node type") is (perhaps obviously) that 
you can use the same model location for more than one type.

This means that user interface frameworks (for example) could know that 
there is only one possible sub-resource address, say "service=ha-policy" 
(to use Heiko's original naming example mixed with Jeff's practical 
example).  Then it only has to make a decision as to how to render the 
resource, rather than having to analyze the model to know that, of the 
six possible children for "ha-policy", only one can ever be present.

On 10/30/2014 09:06 AM, Jason Greene wrote:
> Is it really polymorphism though if you do not share attributes or operations?
>
> It sounds like these are all distinct types just sharing the same portion of an address.
>
> The primary justification for this modeling approach seems to be:
>
> 1) Avoid the user having to assign a name
> 2) Enforce a single occurrence of a “type”
>
>
>> On Oct 30, 2014, at 8:01 AM, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think that polymorphism is a new use case for 'squatters'.  I wonder
>> if we have any existing code which enforces single children?
>>
>> On 10/30/2014 05:40 AM, Jeff Mesnil wrote:
>>> I’m integrating HornetQ 2.5 in WildFly and I have a new use case for resources that is related to singleton/squatter resources.
>>>
>>> In HornetQ 2.5 they have completely rewritten the HA configuration. Basically, a server can be configured as live-only, replicated (master, slave, or colocated) or using shared-store (again as a master, slave or colocated).
>>>
>>> To represent this in the management model, I have added several resources under hornetq-server:
>>>
>>> /subsystem=messaging/
>>>    hornetq-server=*/
>>>      ha-policy=live-only
>>>      ha-policy=replicated-master
>>>      ha-policy=replicated-slave
>>>      ha-policy=replicated-colocated
>>>      ha-policy=shared-store-master
>>>      ha-policy=shared-store-slave
>>>      ha-policy=shared-store-colocated
>>>
>>> I have constraints for this ha-policy resource:
>>>    * There can at most one child for this type of resource (no child means no HA). This is enforces during the MODEL stage.
>>>    * The child can only be named using one of the 7 values above (i.e. there is no resource definition for ha-policy=*, using any other name would fail)
>>>
>>> Each ha-policy definition has a different set of attributes. Using an attribute group to represent the HA policy does not seem a good fit as some of them have subresources too.
>>>
>>> I wonder if that representation fits with our roadmap and whether it can be considered as a singleton (as there can only be one resource of that type among). I have the additional constraints of having only one chile for that type that is not covered by your proposal though.
>>>
>>> I especially wonder how the console (and to a lesser extent the cli) can deal with this resource.
>>>
>>> Heiko, is it something that would make sense for the console based on this resource description:
>>>
>>> [standalone at localhost:9990 hornetq-server=default] ./ha-policy=*:read-resource-description(recursive-depth=1)
>>> {
>>>      "outcome" => "success",
>>>      "result" => [
>>>          {
>>>              "address" => [
>>>                  ("subsystem" => "messaging"),
>>>                  ("hornetq-server" => "default"),
>>>                  ("ha-policy" => "replication-colocated")
>>>              ],
>>>              "outcome" => "success",
>>>              "result" => {
>>>                  ...
>>>              }
>>>          },
>>>          {
>>>              "address" => [
>>>                  ("subsystem" => "messaging"),
>>>                  ("hornetq-server" => "default"),
>>>                  ("ha-policy" => "replication-master")
>>>              ],
>>>              "outcome" => "success",
>>>              "result" => {
>>>                  ...
>>>              }
>>>          },
>>>          {
>>>              "address" => [
>>>                  ("subsystem" => "messaging"),
>>>                  ("hornetq-server" => "default"),
>>>                  ("ha-policy" => "shared-store-slave")
>>>              ],
>>>              "outcome" => "success",
>>>              "result" => {
>>>                  ...
>>>              }
>>>          },
>>>          {
>>>              "address" => [
>>>                  ("subsystem" => "messaging"),
>>>                  ("hornetq-server" => "default"),
>>>                  ("ha-policy" => "live-only")
>>>              ],
>>>              "outcome" => "success",
>>>              "result" => {
>>>                  ...
>>>              }
>>>          },
>>>          {
>>>              "address" => [
>>>                  ("subsystem" => "messaging"),
>>>                  ("hornetq-server" => "default"),
>>>                  ("ha-policy" => "shared-store-master")
>>>              ],
>>>              "outcome" => "success",
>>>              "result" => {
>>>                  ...
>>>              }
>>>          },
>>>          {
>>>              "address" => [
>>>                  ("subsystem" => "messaging"),
>>>                  ("hornetq-server" => "default"),
>>>                  ("ha-policy" => "replication-slave")
>>>              ],
>>>              "outcome" => "success",
>>>              "result" => {
>>>                  ...
>>>              }
>>>          },
>>>          {
>>>              "address" => [
>>>                  ("subsystem" => "messaging"),
>>>                  ("hornetq-server" => "default"),
>>>                  ("ha-policy" => "shared-store-colocated")
>>>              ],
>>>              "outcome" => "success",
>>>              "result" => {
>>>                  ...
>>>              }
>>>          }
>>>      ]
>>> }
>>>
>>> jeff
>>>
>>
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