Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Originally the IDL transaction state machine had a return value
TXN_TRY_AGAIN to signal the client to wait for a change in the database and
then retry its transaction. However, this logic was incomplete, because
it was possible for the database to change before the reply to the
transaction RPC was received, in which case the client would wait for a
further change. Commit 4fdfe5ccf8 (ovsdb-idl: Prevent occasional hang
when multiple database clients race.) fixed the problem by breaking
TXN_TRY_AGAIN into two status codes, TXN_AGAIN_WAIT that meant to wait for
a further change and TXN_AGAIN_NOW that meant that a change had already
occurred so try again immediately.
This is correct enough, but it is more complicated than necessary. It is
simpler and just as correct to use a single "try again" status that
requires the client to wait for a change relative to the database contents
*before* the transaction was committed. This commit makes that change.
It also changes ovsdb_idl_run()'s return type from bool to void because
its return type is hardly useful anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 has autogenerated text "at least -1" in one place.
This '-' should be a minus sign, but ovsdb-doc was generating it as a
hyphen.
Found by lintian.
Reported-by: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
The recently added SchemaHelper class significantly simplifies IDL
instantiation in Python. This commit converts all users of the old
method to the new method, and removes support for the old method.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
When a client of the IDL tries to commit a read-modify-write transaction
but the database has changed in the meantime, the IDL tells its client to
wait for the IDL to change and then try the transaction again by returning
TXN_TRY_AGAIN. The "wait for the IDL to change" part is important because
there's no point in retrying the transaction before the IDL has received
the database updates (the transaction would fail in the same way all over
again).
However, the logic was incomplete: the database update can be received
*before* the reply to the transaction RPC (I think that in the current
ovsdb-server implementation this will always happen, in fact). When this
happens, the right thing to do is to retry the transaction immediately;
if we wait, then we're waiting for an additional change to the database
that may never come, causing an indefinite hang.
This commit therefore breaks the "try again" IDL commit status code
into two, one that means "try again immediately" and another that means
"wait for a change then try again". When an update is processed after a
transaction is committed but before the reply is received, the "try again
now" tells the IDL client not to wait for another database change before
retrying its transaction.
Bug #5980.
Reported-by: Ram Jothikumar <rjothikumar@nicira.com>
Reproduced-by: Alex Yip <alex@nicira.com>
This patch does minor style cleanups to the code in the python and
tests directory. There's other code floating around that could use
similar treatment, but updating it is not convenient at the moment.
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.
Also fixes a typo that caused one version of the error message to have a
hyphen and the other to have a space.
Suggested-by: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
According to Reid, there may be some disadvantages to having this class be
anonymous, for example, cannot do instance/typechecking, might be
allocating a new class for every row as well, which isn't the most memory
efficient.
Suggested-by: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
Idl.__parse_row_update() assumed that every change that the database server
sent down actually modified the database. This is generally true, but
since Idl.__modify_row() already returns whether there was a change, we
might as well use it.
Reported-by: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
Strangely malformed <row-update>s could hypothetically get confusing error
message. Using the Parser class should avoid that.
Reported-by: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
This leaves one use of __dict__ used for iterating through attributes.
I could use dir() instead, but I was put off by this note in its
documentation in the Python Library Reference:
Because dir() is supplied primarily as a convenience for use at an
interactive prompt, it tries to supply an interesting set of names more
than it tries to supply a rigorously or consistently defined set of names,
and its detailed behavior may change across releases. For example,
metaclass attributes are not in the result list when the argument is a
class.
Suggested-by: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
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>
Otherwise the refType always appears to be 0 (OVSDB_REF_STRONG).
Nothing in the code that uses these structures actually uses the refType
yet, so this does not fix any existing bug, but upcoming commits will add
users.
All of the negative Python OVSDB tests were failing on Python 2.6 because
"%s\n" % e yielded the empty string on that version of Python. In turn,
that was because ovs.db.error.Error.__unicode__ was being called instead of
ovs.db.error.Error.__str__. I'm puzzled why that was happening, but this
commit fixes it and also seems like a small code cleanup.
Peter Balland helped me gain some insight on this problem.
CC: Peter Balland <peter@nicira.com>
CC: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
The documentation doesn't really need to say that a field may be "between
0 and 4294967295 characters long".
This regression was introduced by commit 991559357 "Implement initial
Python bindings for Open vSwitch database."
