[libvirt] [PATCH 07/10] Introduce generic RPC server objects

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:33:56PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> To facilitate creation of new daemons providing XDR RPC services,
> pull alot of the libvirtd daemon code into a set of reusable
> objects.
> 
>  * virNetServer: A server contains one or more services which
>    accept incoming clients. It maintains the list of active
>    clients. It has a list of RPC programs which can be used
>    by clients. When clients produce a complete RPC message,
>    the server passes this onto the corresponding program for
>    handling, and queues any response back with the client.
> 
>  * virNetServerClient: Encapsulates a single client connection.
>    All I/O for the client is handled, reading & writing RPC
>    messages.
> 
>  * virNetServerProgram: Handles processing and dispatch of
>    RPC method calls for a single RPC (program,version).
>    Multiple programs can be registered with the server.
> 
>  * virNetServerService: Encapsulates socket(s) listening for
>    new connections. Each service listens on a single host/port,
>    but may have multiple sockets if on a dual IPv4/6 host.
> 
> Each new daemon now merely has to define the list of RPC procedures
> & their handlers. It does not need to deal with any network related
> functionality at all.

  I very much like this, this is a significant chunk of code though.
And well libvirtd won't be using it with the current patch set (well
unless I missed it), I would expect a patch trimming the daemon
directory and making it use those new pieces of code, unless I missed
something. The "advantage" is that we would have immediate testing of
that code, the disadvantage being that the libvirtd may get new bugs
from the reimplementation.

  Did I miss something or is the current choice of not using the
new APIs for libvird a trade-off ?

Daniel

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