Hi all,
For the Apache CloudStack project I'm working on implementing the
snapshotting and cloning features for RBD.
We (the project) want to stay away from invoking binaries like 'rbd' or
'qemu-img' in the background since parsing the output and handling exit
statuses can be hard to deal with.
So work around this I started working on Java JNA [0] bindings for
librados and librbd [1]
The reason to use JNA is that it allows us to simply drop the bindings
and run them without having them compiled against the librados or librbd
headers.
The bindings are currently aimed at providing the functionality which
CloudStack needs, which is mainly focused at RBD, but I've also
implemented multiple RADOS operations.
I've chosen to implement both RADOS and RBD into the same package and
using com.ceph.rados and com.ceph.rbd for as the package name. It could
be splitted into different projects, but I think that won't benefit
anybody. Having it all in one package seem easy, since RBD needs a RADOS
IoCTX to work anyway.
I'd like to get some feedback on the bindings about the way they are
now. They are still work-in-progress, but my Unit Testing shows me they
are in a reasonable shape already.
Once the bindings reach a more mature state (which probably isn't that
far away) I'd like to donate them to the Ceph project so they can live
on Ceph's Github page instead of my personal one.
Getting them into Maven Central [2] won't be that easy, so I'd like to
request space for that on ceph.com, for example ceph.com/download/maven
and users will have to manually add that to their pom.xml configuration.
The request for a Maven repository is a bit selfish, since CloudStack
uses Maven to build and during building it will need some place where it
can fetch the artifacts.
So that's it for now, feedback and suggestions are more then welcome!
(Patches / pull requests ditto!)
Related issues in the tracker:
- #4231
- #4232
[0]: https://github.com/twall/jna
[1]: https://github.com/wido/rados-java
[2]:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html
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