[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovn: expose c validator to python

[Ryan Moats]

"dev" <dev-bounces at openvswitch.org> wrote on 06/30/2016 04:27:19 PM:

> From: Aaron Rosen <aaronorosen at gmail.com>
> To: dev at openvswitch.org
> Cc: Aaron Rosen <aaronorosen at gmail.com>
> Date: 06/30/2016 04:29 PM
> Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovn: expose c validator to python
> Sent by: "dev" <dev-bounces at openvswitch.org>
>
> This patch exposes the c function expr_parse_string() to be called via
> python. The motivation for this is so that clients interfacing with
> ovn can call this method in order to validate the data they are writting
> to ovn.
>
> Previously, there were several bugs in the neutron/ovn integration
> that went unnoticed due to the client writing invalid data. This should
> hopefully help catch errors like this earlier as it can now be detected
on
> the client side and an error can be raised.
> ---

As an FYI, if this is v2 of the patch, please indicate that in the
subject line by using the -v or --reroll-count option to
git-format-patch. That makes keeping track of superceded patches in
the patch queue easier...

Thanks in advance,
Ryan