Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9 4/5] rbd: Peel off redundant RbdAuthMethod wrapper struct

[Eric Blake]

On 03/24/2017 09:10 AM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 08:49:20AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 03/24/2017 07:42 AM, Jeff Cody wrote:
>>
>>> Agree.  My preference is to leave it as an array of methods, so long as that
>>> is tenable to libvirt.
>>
>> The -drive syntax should remain unchanged (that's an absolute must for
>> libvirt).  But the QMP syntax being an array of methods sounds best to
>> me, and I think password-secret should be part of the array.  So my vote
>> would be for:
>>
>> { "driver": "rbd", "image": "foo",
>>   "auth": [ { "type": "cephx", "password-secret": "sec0" },
>>             { "type": "none" } ],
>>   "pool": "bar" }
>>
>> It makes mapping -drive arguments into QMP form a bit trickier, but the
>> QMP form is then easily extensible if we add another auth method down
>> the road.
>>
> 
> In that case, what about adding user as well, and not just password-secret?

Makes sense - anything that is associated solely with cephx should
belong to the same flat-union branch for cephx, rather than at the top
level.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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