Dataplane-Controlplane service definition project

Comments go into the dataplane/dataplane.proto file. The more - the better.

Installation

Best practice

• Do not change field numbers. That is asking for hard-to-understand bugs.

• Keep this repository and the dataplane sources in sync. Details are below.

• Think about extensibility and clarity first, performance a distant second. If you're trying to performance-optimise StorageOS's gRPC, you're doing it wrong.

Build

To build, by far the easiest way is to use Docker.

The first time it may take a minute or so building the build environment. After that, the build is super fast and you can skip the clean step if you know what you're doing.

Committing and pushing

Follow these instructions exactly. Explanation will follow.

$ dapper -m bind clean go

# Commit your changes with helpful documentation.
# Commit any changes to golang source files.

# Push to your branch and submit a PR. DO NOT push to master.
$ git push

The gRPC-generated golang sources must be committed. This is so that the control plane build can import this repository directly and use it like any other go module.

It must be just the golang sources. C++ sources will break the control plane build.

Dataplane visibility

There used to be an extra step to update the dataplane copy. However, this git repo is pulled in as a submodule now, so that's not required any more.

I changed the dataplane sources first, am I boned

It depends. If your changes commit with changes to this repository, then possibly yes, you are a bit boned. If you're lucky, all you have to do is change field numbers to match, but every case is going to be different.

If you've only added, create a branch and use a PR to merge your changes into this repository. Do not commit directly to master.

Development

To work on this software, you must:

• Install the standard C++ implementation of protocol buffers from [https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/]

  To get a consistent version with the dataplane source, you could install the dataplane binary build tools, as documented in the dataplane build.

• Install the Go compiler and tools from [https://golang.org/] See [https://golang.org/doc/install] for details or, if you are using gccgo, follow the instructions at [https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo]

• Grab the code from the repository and install the proto package. The simplest way is to run go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go. The compiler plugin, protoc-gen-go, will be installed in $GOBIN, defaulting to $GOPATH/bin. It must be in your $PATH for the protocol compiler, protoc, to find it.

This software has two parts: a 'protocol compiler plugin' that generates Go source files that, once compiled, can access and manage protocol buffers; and a library that implements run-time support for encoding (marshalling), decoding (unmarshalling), and accessing protocol buffers.

Generate protobuf and gRPC source files

To generate the code to implement the protobuf messages and gRPC services, run:

$ make grpc
protoc -Icommon/v1 -I dataplane --cpp_out=dataplane dataplane.proto
protoc -Icommon/v1 -I common/v1 --cpp_out=common/v1 common.proto
... etc ...
$

The generated files will be generated in the same directory as the .proto source files, and will have language-specific suffixes:

Target	Suffix(es)
Go	.pb.go
C++	.cc, .h