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  2. HELP-6305

FIWARE.Request.Tech.Cloud.ObjectStorage.Docs.ObjectStorage

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    • Type: extRequest
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Fix Version/s: 2021
    • Component/s: FIWARE-TECH-HELP
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      Description

      Comment by toffoli@linkroma.it :

      Dear Sandor,
      during the past months we had performed simple tests on the Object
      Storage by creating containers and uploading objects from the web
      interface of the FI-Lab portal.
      In order to test some application functions using the Object Storage
      API, we started with the execution of the sample code in the Object
      Storage wiki
      (https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Object_Storage_-_User_and_Programmers_Guide#Programmer_Guide_-_Accessing_Object_Storage_via_the_native_API).
      But we met a few problems, due to our lack of experience and possibly to
      uncomplete documentation.
      1. Some swift endpoints listed as available don't respond
      We repeatedly executed the sample code without success. Then, since it
      seems that there are some 10 swift endpoints in the list, while the
      sample code in the wiki always picks always the same endpoint
      (http://api3.ficore.imaginlab.fr:8080/v1 in our case), we iterated on
      the list until we found one service provider working
      (http://api2.xifi.imaginlab.fr:8080/v1).
      2. Cannot find complete documentation on the OS service provided by the
      FI-Lab
      By executing the modified sample code, eventually we are able to create
      a test container and to put a test object inside it.
      At the start we were confused: not finding specific information on the
      endpoints of the swift service, we tried to use the first one that
      allowed us to execute the test procedure (modified sample code) with
      success.
      We thought that the different endpoints were working as a federation
      managing a shared namespace. Only by trying we became aware that we
      should pick from the list the Budapest2 endpoint in order to get a
      synchronized view of our containers from both the Fi-lab dashboard and
      the API interface.
      By the way: we noticed that, adding an object to a container through the
      REST API, the count of objects in the web view is refreshed with
      considerable delay, possibly due to some caching.
      Could you tell us where we could find some more documentation, besides
      the general one concerning the Object Storage specifications and the
      Object Storage API?
      Thank you in advance.
      Best regards, Giovanni

      Giovanni Toffoli, CEO
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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment -

          Dear Fiware Lab team,

          The inquiry has been handled in https://jira.fiware.org/browse/HELC-1213 by the Budapets team. But this ticket is just to raise awareness about the feedback that an SME gave us about the difficulty of finding the SWIFT endpoints on each node:

          "Thank you Sandor, thank you Ilknur,
          in fact, by issuing the equivalent request inside our Python test
          procedure, we got a big Json data structure including, for each type of
          service, the list of the endpoints that we should be able to access.
          With my email, I wished mainly to give a feedback, useful for other
          people and for improving the documentation, on the difficulty that we
          met at finding and interpreting that information.
          Best regards"

          so perhaps we have to provide better documentation somewhere to let SMEs find this information more easily.

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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment - Dear Fiware Lab team, The inquiry has been handled in https://jira.fiware.org/browse/HELC-1213 by the Budapets team. But this ticket is just to raise awareness about the feedback that an SME gave us about the difficulty of finding the SWIFT endpoints on each node: "Thank you Sandor, thank you Ilknur, in fact, by issuing the equivalent request inside our Python test procedure, we got a big Json data structure including, for each type of service, the list of the endpoints that we should be able to access. With my email, I wished mainly to give a feedback, useful for other people and for improving the documentation, on the difficulty that we met at finding and interpreting that information. Best regards" so perhaps we have to provide better documentation somewhere to let SMEs find this information more easily.
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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment -

          Hi Eran,
          Any updates regarding this request?

          Many thanks,

          ilknur

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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment - Hi Eran, Any updates regarding this request? Many thanks, ilknur
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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment -

          Hi Eran, any news? Were you able to take a look at the documentation to see how to improve it for the endpoints?

          Many thanks,

          ilknur

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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment - Hi Eran, any news? Were you able to take a look at the documentation to see how to improve it for the endpoints? Many thanks, ilknur
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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment -

          Well, I have two things blocking me now:
          1. I cannot edit the page (https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Object_Storage_-_User_and_Programmers_Guide)
          2. I fail to login to the FIWARELAB account to test it myself. I have registered but the conformation link (https://account.lab.fiware.org/activate/) gives me: "Activation key invalid "

          Any help is greatly appreciated.

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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment - Well, I have two things blocking me now: 1. I cannot edit the page ( https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Object_Storage_-_User_and_Programmers_Guide ) 2. I fail to login to the FIWARELAB account to test it myself. I have registered but the conformation link ( https://account.lab.fiware.org/activate/ ) gives me: "Activation key invalid " Any help is greatly appreciated.
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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment -

          The issue has been emailed:

          • Time sent: 21/Apr/16 1:39 PM
          • To: miguel.carrillopacheco@telefonica.com
          • with subject: *(HELP-6305) FIWARE.Request.Lab.Docs.ObjectStorage *

          Dear Miguel,

          Could you kindly guide Eran on how to get access for the wiki? He is working on the object storage GE and wants to update the documentation. Thanks,

          ilknur

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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment - The issue has been emailed: Time sent: 21/Apr/16 1:39 PM To: miguel.carrillopacheco@telefonica.com with subject: *( HELP-6305 ) FIWARE.Request.Lab.Docs.ObjectStorage * Dear Miguel, Could you kindly guide Eran on how to get access for the wiki? He is working on the object storage GE and wants to update the documentation. Thanks, ilknur
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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment -

          Hi Eran,

          I sent an email to Miguel for your question on wiki, and opened a ticket to Alvaro (IDM) for your Fiware Lab login issuei,.e. see ticket HELP-6454.

          Hope these help.

          Best regards,

          ilknur

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          ichulani ilknur chulani added a comment - Hi Eran, I sent an email to Miguel for your question on wiki, and opened a ticket to Alvaro (IDM) for your Fiware Lab login issuei,.e. see ticket HELP-6454 . Hope these help. Best regards, ilknur
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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment -

          Thanks very much!
          Eran

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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment - Thanks very much! Eran
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          mcp Miguel Carrillo added a comment -

          The escalation level is not going directly to the general coordination. In fact, this case should be managed by the cloud coordination, in IBM. In any case, I replied in private giving the procedure to use the forge and the wiki. This is now awaiting the feedback from Eran to see if it is resolved.

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          mcp Miguel Carrillo added a comment - The escalation level is not going directly to the general coordination. In fact, this case should be managed by the cloud coordination, in IBM. In any case, I replied in private giving the procedure to use the forge and the wiki. This is now awaiting the feedback from Eran to see if it is resolved.
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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment -

          I have access to edit the wiki. I am now working with Kalman and Kenneth to succeed in actually accessing the object store using the ficore auth endpoint. It currently appears that my user does not have any services defined:

          curl -d '{"auth": {"passwordCredentials":

          {"username":"eranr@il.ibm.com", "password":"********"}

          }}' -H 'Content-type: application/json' http://cloud.lab.fiware.org:4730/v2.0/tokens -vvv

          {"access": {"token":

          {"issued_at": "2016-05-02T13:56:26.133340", "expires": "2016-05-03T13:56:26Z", "id": "6c59777d23d14ce59f98b25c2860e1d6", "audit_ids": ["c4EO1qqpQG-RN0PetZExlQ"]}

          , "serviceCatalog": [], "user":

          {"username": "eranr@il.ibm.com", "roles_links": [], "id": "eranr", "roles": [], "name": "eranr@il.ibm.com"}

          , "metadata":

          {"is_admin": 0, "roles": []}

          }}

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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment - I have access to edit the wiki. I am now working with Kalman and Kenneth to succeed in actually accessing the object store using the ficore auth endpoint. It currently appears that my user does not have any services defined: curl -d '{"auth": {"passwordCredentials": {"username":"eranr@il.ibm.com", "password":"********"} }}' -H 'Content-type: application/json' http://cloud.lab.fiware.org:4730/v2.0/tokens -vvv {"access": {"token": {"issued_at": "2016-05-02T13:56:26.133340", "expires": "2016-05-03T13:56:26Z", "id": "6c59777d23d14ce59f98b25c2860e1d6", "audit_ids": ["c4EO1qqpQG-RN0PetZExlQ"]} , "serviceCatalog": [], "user": {"username": "eranr@il.ibm.com", "roles_links": [], "id": "eranr", "roles": [], "name": "eranr@il.ibm.com"} , "metadata": {"is_admin": 0, "roles": []} }}
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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment -

          Apologies for the long time this took (mainly due to passover vacation, but not only...).
          I have updated the documentation here:
          https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Object_Storage_-_User_and_Programmers_Guide#3._Authenticate_tenant_to_get_token_for_Object_Storage

          the changes include:
          1. specifying the the way of Accessing Object Storage via the Cloud Portal is obsolete.
          2. Added an example for retrieving the token using tenant name (and how to retrieve it)
          3. Added an explanation on the token structure and the fact that not all regions are operational.

          Hope this helps!
          Eran

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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment - Apologies for the long time this took (mainly due to passover vacation, but not only...). I have updated the documentation here: https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Object_Storage_-_User_and_Programmers_Guide#3._Authenticate_tenant_to_get_token_for_Object_Storage the changes include: 1. specifying the the way of Accessing Object Storage via the Cloud Portal is obsolete. 2. Added an example for retrieving the token using tenant name (and how to retrieve it) 3. Added an explanation on the token structure and the fact that not all regions are operational. Hope this helps! Eran
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          eranr Eran Rom added a comment -

          I have updated the documentation here:
          https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Object_Storage_-_User_and_Programmers_Guide#3._Authenticate_tenant_to_get_token_for_Object_Storage

          the changes include:
          1. specifying the the way of Accessing Object Storage via the Cloud Portal is obsolete.
          2. Added an example for retrieving the token using tenant name (and how to retrieve it)
          3. Added an explanation on the token structure and the fact that not all regions are operational.

          Show
          eranr Eran Rom added a comment - I have updated the documentation here: https://forge.fiware.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/Object_Storage_-_User_and_Programmers_Guide#3._Authenticate_tenant_to_get_token_for_Object_Storage the changes include: 1. specifying the the way of Accessing Object Storage via the Cloud Portal is obsolete. 2. Added an example for retrieving the token using tenant name (and how to retrieve it) 3. Added an explanation on the token structure and the fact that not all regions are operational.

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            • Assignee:
              eranr Eran Rom
              Reporter:
              ichulani ilknur chulani
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