[Maas-devel] You can't use the REST API from PServ

[Julian Edwards]

On Wednesday 27 Aug 2014 11:16:28 Gavin Panella wrote:
> On 27 August 2014 10:58, Graham Binns <graham.binns at canonical.com> wrote:
> > As Julian has pointed out to me just today:
> >> you cannot use the API in pserv, it never gets sent the API
> >> credentials, which is why for my lease uploading service I added an
> >> RPC to do that.  Let's get rid of the API entirely for clusters rather
> >> than being half-assed about it.
> > 
> > So, to bullet point that for future use:
> >  - You can't use the REST API from pserv (e.g. TimerServices on the
> >  
> >    cluster, etc.)
> >  
> >  - If you're converting a celery task to something that runs in pserv,
> >  
> >    you _must_ convert any REST API calls to RPC calls.
> 
> For now the primary goal with RPC is to remove Celery and RabbitMQ
> from the stack, and I think we'd be better served by adding a single
> new RPC call to the region, GetSecrets (say), so we can continue to
> use the API from clusters. 

Urgh.....

> There are also some API calls that ship
> more data than can fit in a single RPC payload, so we *need* this
> anyway.

Which ones?  Can we talk about how to get them working (multiple paged calls 
maybe).