Attendees

• Unknown User (mfreemon)

• Lengyue Chen
• Unknown User (mfelarca)

Notes

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  • Discussed initial draft diagrams
  • Lengyue Chen will break into 3 different diagrams
  • 6/26 general discussion -- new revisions on their way
    
    
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  • Unknown User (mfelarca) will review tools/libraries for the web services app at the developer meeting on Wednesday
    • functionality needed includes REST API/impl generation support and authn/z
  • 6/25 discussion
    • tentative direction is the MEAN stack – mongodb, express, angular.js, node.js
    • also loopback
      
      • from github: LoopBack is an open source Node.js framework built on top of Express optimized for building APIs for mobile, web, and other devices.
    • no problem calling the python OpenStack APIs
      
    • focus is getting alpha1 up and running quickly
  • 6/26 more general discussion
    
    

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  • Lengyue Chen will draft initial REST API to be implemented
  • REST API for the Management of NDS Labs Environments
  • 6/25 discussion
    • good initial draft
    • will deemphasize authn/z in alpha1
      • pass parms only if it is "free" in terms of time and complexity
      • attach username and project id to environments only if it is "free" as above
      • alpha2 or later will use these fields
    • will discuss more at next dev meeting
  • 6/26 more general discussion
    
    
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  • Unknown User (mfelarca) will demo existing web app at the developer meeting on Friday 6/26
    
  • 6/26 discussion
    • old app up and running on mario's dev system 
    • not connecting to yt-webapp
    • working with kacper on connectivity to yt-webapp problem
      
      
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  • Unknown User (mfelarca) will rename/redefine bitbucket hg repository yt-webapp to nds-web-services
  • the name of the nds-explorer repository does not change (this is the web user interface)
  • will be done by Monday 6/29
    
    
• General NDS Explorer / NDS Web Services Design/Implementation Topics
  • NDS Explorer Design and Implementation
  • 6/22 No decision yet on how to store Environment or Service definition information
  • 6/26 discussion
    
    • use mongodb for store environment information
    • use flat file (not mongo) for service definitions – format of flat file to be proposed by Unknown User (mfelarca)
      • note previous input: ... having service definitions that can be expressed as JSON would be ideal, since that's readily and easily parseable (and constructable) in a fully client-side app.
        
        

Other

• Unknown User (mfreemon) is on vacation next week
• Developers will continue to meet on the regular schedule
• Goals for next week are
  
  • web service repo created and both (nds explorer and nds web services) repos made ready for active shared use
    • includes the "scaffolding" for our MEAN stack
  • first two pieces of functionality working end-to-end – from brower to explorer to web service to backend systems (openstack)
    
    • list environments
    • create environment
  • along the way, details will be worked out, such as
    • how we will be calling the python nova apis from our web services implementation
    • initial version of html pages
• Unknown User (mfelarca) will publish notes on either Wed 7/1 or Thu 7/2