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Subject: Re: [GSOC] [CLOUDSTACK-6045] Final update
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Great work Seif, thanks for the slides.

I hope you stay involved with the community.

-sebastien

On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Seif Eddine Jemli =
<seifeddinejemli@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> As you probably know, I have worked on this project whose goal is =
making
> the GUI support adding primary storage to CS that is based on storage
> plug-ins.
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> =
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Create+GUI+to+add+p=
rimary+storage+based+on+plug-ins
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> The pencils down firm deadline was Monday the 18th. I spent yesterday
> preparing a presentation that summarizes my GSoC tasks from this =
summer.
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> Here is the link to the presentation:
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> http://fr.slideshare.net/seif_100/seif-mike-gsoc2014cloudstack
> =
<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffr.slideshare.net%2Fseif_1=
00%2Fseif-mike-gsoc2014cloudstack&h=3DQAQEcJBPc>
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> I have worked mainly on two tasks:
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> * The first task I worked on was adding support into CloudStack's GUI =
to
> enable admins to add Primary Storage that is based on a custom =
plug-in.
> Prior to this, admins needed to perform this task either via =
CloudStack's
> CLI, its API, or some other tool that leveraged CloudStack's CLI or =
its API.
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> * The other task was adding the following GUI control to CloudStack:
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> http://loopj.com/jquery-tokeninput/
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> This control replaces the need for admins to type in a comma-separated =
list
> of what CloudStack calls storage tags (we were also able to apply this
> control to what CloudStack calls host tags).
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> As part of this process, I needed to create two new API calls to =
CloudStack
> and invoke them from the GUI. These API calls retrieve the current =
list of
> storage tags or host tags and populate them into the GUI control. The =
admin
> can then either select one or more existing tags and/or add new ones.
> Overall, this feature will make it much easier for admins to avoid =
input
> errors.
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> GUI forms that make use of this new control include the following:
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> -Add Primary Storage
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> -Add Host
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> -Add Compute Offering
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> -Add Disk Offering
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> Two detail views make use of this new control for editing tags:
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> -Edit mode for a primary storage
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> -Edit mode for a host
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> These two tasks were completely fulfilled, and I hope that they will =
be
> useful for the CloudStack admins.
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> I would like to thank my mentor, Mike Tutkowski, for his help and =
guidance
> during the project. I would also like to thank the "Apache Cloudstack
> Community" members for their helpful answers.
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> The GSoC experience was very good overall, with especially a lot of
> learning. That being the case, I'll probably apply next year for =
another
> project.
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> Beyond GSoC, I am thinking of modifying the URL input on the "Add =
Primary
> Storage" form to make it more user friendly by accepting "key-value" =
inputs.
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> Thanks everyone,
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> Seif