Until now, the Python bindings for OVSDB have not supported writing to the
database. Instead, writes had to be done with "ovs-vsctl" subprocesses.
This commit adds write support and brings the Python bindings in line with
the C bindings.
This commit deletes the Python-specific IDL tests in favor of using the
same tests as the C version of the IDL, which now pass with both
implementations.
This commit updates the two users of the Python IDL to use the new write
support. I tested this updates only by writing unit tests for them,
which appear in upcoming commits.
Until now ovs.db.types.BaseType has kept track of the name of the
referenced table but not a reference to it. This commit renames the
ref_table attribute to ref_table_name and adds a new ref_table attribute
whose value is a reference to the named table.
This will be useful in an upcoming commit where table references are
actually followed.
The JSON parser in OVS always yields unicode strings and lists, never
non-unicode strings or tuples, but it's easy to create them when building
JSON elsewhere, so accept both forms.
When a strong reference to a non-root table is ephemeral, the database log
can contain inconsistencies. In particular, if the column in question is
the only reference to a row, then the row will be created in one logged
transaction but the reference to it will not be logged (because it is
ephemeral). Thus, any later occurrence of the row later in the log (to
modify it, to delete it, or just to reference it) will yield a transaction
error and reading the database will abort at that point.
This commit fixes the problem by forcing any column with a strong reference
to a non-root table to be persistent.
The change to ovsdb_schema_from_json() looks bigger than it really is: it
just swaps the order of two operations on the schema and updates their
comments. Similarly for the update to ovs.db.DbSchema.__init__().
Bug #5144.
Reported-by: Sujatha Sumanth <ssumanth@nicira.com>
Bug #5149.
Reported-by: Ram Jothikumar <rjothikumar@nicira.com>
These initial bindings pass a few hundred of the corresponding tests
for C implementations of various bits of the Open vSwitch library API.
The poorest part of them is actually the Python IDL interface in
ovs.db.idl, which has not received enough attention yet. It appears
to work, but it doesn't yet support writes (transactions) and it is
difficult to use. I hope to improve it as it becomes clear what
semantics Python applications actually want from an IDL.
