[ovs-discuss] The discrepancy in the Monitor request composition.

[Anil Jangam]

Thanks you Ben! I saw the other patch email as well. Since it is says that
"reported-by" me, do I have any further action item on me?

/anil.


On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> Ah, OK, you're saying that there's a missing [] around the
> <monitor-request>.  This goes back to a change that we made to the
> ovsdb-server protocol a long time ago to allow multiple
> <monitor-request> objects instead of just a single one.  ovsdb-server
> still supports this form.  You can see this documented in
> Documentation/ref/ovsdb-server.7.rst:
>
>     For backward compatibility, ``ovsdb-server`` currently permits a single
>     <monitor-request> to be used instead of an array; it is treated as a
>     single-element array.  Future versions of ``ovsdb-server`` might
> remove this
>     compatibility feature.
>
> I guess we should change ovsdb-idl.c to use an array now.  Oops.
>
> Anyway, that's easy enough, so I sent a patch:
>         https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/882710/
>
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 08:38:34PM -0800, Anil Jangam wrote:
> > Hello Ben,
> >
> > The <monitor-requests> object maps the name of the table to be monitored
> >
> > to an array of <monitor-request> objects. Each <monitor-request> is an
> >
> > object with the following members:
> >
> >        "columns": [<column>*]            optional
> >
> >        "select": <monitor-select>        optional
> >
> >
> >
> > As the <monitor-requests> maps the table name to be monitored to an array
> > of <monitor-request>, my interpretation of it is as "Table Name <-->
> Array
> > of <monitor-request>"
> >
> > I am giving an example message is given below.
> >
> > {
> >   "id": "c5c09c07-11c1-449b-8f04-016fefe15844",
> >   "method": "monitor",
> >   "params": [
> >     "hardware_vtep",
> >     "91c9eed4-00bb-48e3-b2d9-51e0364bbdc2",
> >     {
> >       "Physical_Locator": [
> >         {
> >           "columns": [
> >             "dst_ip",
> >             "encapsulation_type",
> >             "_uuid"
> >           ],
> >           "select": {
> >             "initial": true,
> >             "insert": true,
> >             "delete": true,
> >             "modify": true
> >           }
> >         },
> >         {
> >           "columns": [
> >             "_uuid",
> >             "locators"
> >           ],
> >           "select": {
> >             "initial": true,
> >             "insert": true,
> >             "delete": true,
> >             "modify": true
> >           }
> >         }
> >       ]
> >     }
> >   ]
> > }
> >
> >
> > /anil.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:03:13PM -0800, Anil Jangam wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The RFC7047 states below about the Monitor request.
> > > >
> > > > The request object has the
> > > >
> > > >    following members:
> > > >
> > > >    o  "method": "monitor"
> > > >
> > > >    o  "params": [<db-name>, <json-value>, <monitor-requests>]
> > > >
> > > >    o  "id": <nonnull-json-value>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The <json-value> parameter is used to match subsequent update
> > > >
> > > > notifications (see below) to this request.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The <monitor-requests> object maps the name of the table to be
> monitored
> > > >
> > > > to an array of <monitor-request> objects. Each <monitor-request> is
> an
> > > >
> > > > object with the following members:
> > > >
> > > >        "columns": [<column>*]            optional
> > > >
> > > >        "select": <monitor-select>        optional
> > > >
> > > > The columns, if present, define the columns within the table to be
> > > monitored.
> > > >
> > > > <monitor-select> is an object with the following members:
> > > >
> > > >        "initial": <boolean>              optional
> > > >
> > > >        "insert": <boolean>               optional
> > > >
> > > >        "delete": <boolean>               optional
> > > >
> > > >        "modify": <boolean>               optional
> > > >
> > > > The contents of this object specify how the columns or table are to
> be
> > > > monitored,
> > > >
> > > > as explained in more detail below.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > However, when I look at some of the legitimate samples of the Monitor
> > > > requests, they are encoded as below.
> > > >
> > > > {
> > > >   "id": "c5c09c07-11c1-449b-8f04-016fefe15844",
> > > >   "method": "monitor",
> > > >   "params": [
> > > >     "hardware_vtep",
> > > >     "91c9eed4-00bb-48e3-b2d9-51e0364bbdc2",
> > > >     {
> > > >       "Physical_Locator": {
> > > >         "columns": [
> > > >           "dst_ip",
> > > >           "encapsulation_type",
> > > >           "_uuid"
> > > >         ],
> > > >         "select": {
> > > >           "initial": true,
> > > >           "insert": true,
> > > >           "delete": true,
> > > >           "modify": true
> > > >         }
> > > >       },
> > > >       "Physical_Locator_Set": {
> > > >         "columns": [
> > > >           "_uuid",
> > > >           "locators"
> > > >         ],
> > > >         "select": {
> > > >           "initial": true,
> > > >           "insert": true,
> > > >           "delete": true,
> > > >           "modify": true
> > > >         }
> > > >       }
> > > >     }
> > > >   ]
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If we go by the RFC encoding rules, "params" contains the
> > > > <monitor-requests>, which maps the "Table name" to an array of
> > > > <Monitor-request> object. So IMHO, the table names comes only once
> in the
> > > > message. Correct?
> > >
> > > Yes.  That's what I see above.  The table names are Physical_Locator
> and
> > > Physical_Locator_Set, and each of them is mentioned once.
> > > In the <monitor-requests> object "Physical_Locator" is mapped to:
> > >
> > >        {
> > >          "columns": [
> > >            "dst_ip",
> > >            "encapsulation_type",
> > >            "_uuid"
> > >          ],
> > >          "select": {
> > >            "initial": true,
> > >            "insert": true,
> > >            "delete": true,
> > >            "modify": true
> > >          }
> > >        }
> > >
> > > and similarly for "Physical_Locator_Set".
> > >
> > > > Also, it is explicitly mentioned that (as below) and it does NOT
> contain
> > > > the "Table name" in it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Each <monitor-request> is an
> > > >
> > > > object with the following members:
> > > >
> > > >        "columns": [<column>*]            optional
> > > >
> > > >        "select": <monitor-select>        optional
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > However, in the message payload that I have, shows the tuple, which
> > > > contains "Table : Columns : Select". This list of <monitor-request>
> > > constitute
> > > > the <monitor-requests> as per the RFC definition.
> > > >
> > > > I see this as the discrepancy between the RFC definition and how the
> > > > message is actually sent by the controller.
> > >
> > > I don't understand what discrepancy you see.  Can you show an example,
> > > for example by providing how you think the above example should
> actually
> > > be encoded?
> > >
>
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