[Planetlab-devel] Web UI for federated objects - impacts on API

[Tony Mack]

Having GetPeers return peer_id, peername, peer_url should be good 
enough. I don't see how the other info returned by GetPeers could be 
useful to a regular user and some of it would have to be filtered before 
its returned (i.e. key_ids, person_ids, slice_ids).

Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
> Hi Faiyaz
> In a multi-peer environment, I'd like to be able to display the peer 
> name for each foreign object
> From, say, a foreign node, I can access its peer_id, but I cannot 
> translate this into a peername, as long as I am logged a regular user.
> Another thing: I cannot show a list of peers with their URLs and 
> related numbers of nodes and stuff alike.
> Thierry
>
> Faiyaz Ahmed wrote:
>> Thierry,
>>
>> What kind of functions would a user be interested in?
>>
>>
>> Faiyaz
>>
>> Thierry Parmentelat wrote:
>>> Hi Reid and all
>>>
>>> Following-up on the impact of federated objects on the web UI:
>>> I was ideally hoping to replace, as much as possible, the functions 
>>> that allow to manage a local object, that do not make sense on 
>>> federated objects (like e.g. changing a node's boot state), with 
>>> details on the authoritative peer. (I am starting to experiment in a 
>>> multi-peer environment, and this makes particular sense in this 
>>> context.)
>>>
>>> Anyway it seems that GetPeers is restricted to be called by roles 
>>> 'admin' and 'node'.
>>> I'd like to have this restriction lowered, so that a regular user 
>>> can invoke GetPeers.
>>> My first thought was that the cacert and key fields should not get 
>>> disclosed but, this is public material so I do not think there is 
>>> any sensitive security issue here.
>>>
>>> So my question is, does anyone have anything against the fact that 
>>> GetPeers becomes allowed to regular users.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Thierry
>>>
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