Re: [DISCUSS] Changing events to include UUIDs, could it break your integration

[Rohit Yadav <ro...@shapeblue.com>]

Hi Michael,


Thanks for sharing, can you confirm if Ubersmith consumes the list of events rather than consume from the cloud_usage.cloud_usage and related tables?


Once you and possibly other users can confirm we can keep the PR off the next release to work with everyone and avoid breaking billing and other integrations, but a refactoring of exporting UUIDs instead of IDs is inevitable in future releases.


As a project, we can't guarantee backward compatibilities on the event description/subject as we've seen minor changes to the text in the past PRs. It is therefore advised that external integrations and tools/vendors should consume from cloud_usage and related tables and not event description tables/lists for processing billings. Thanks.


- Rohit

<https://cloudstack.apache.org>



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From: Michael J McCafferty <mi...@m5hosting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 2:28:52 AM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Changing events to include UUIDs, could it break your integration

Hi Rohit,

This will break billing for us. We use Ubersmith.

If this change is made, please make it optional (global setting for old and new way) or allow for different API versions either by option or path that is called.

Thanks!
Mike

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> On Dec 28, 2017, at 1:52 AM, Rohit Yadav <ro...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> We've come across a pull request which changes the event description to use/export UUIDs instead of the numeric internal ID of a resource. I'm not sure if this could potentially break any external integration such as billing, crms etc. so wanted to get your feedback on this. My understanding is external billing/intergrations would consume from the usage related tables for data than events table.
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> The PR is https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1940
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> Comments, thoughts? Thanks.
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> - Rohit
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> <https://cloudstack.apache.org>
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> rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com
> www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com>
> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK
> @shapeblue
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