#opendaylight-meeting: MD-SAL Status Call

Meeting summary

1. 1. https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/8705/ (edwarnicke, 16:06:35)
   2. Not meeting recording today due to webex limitation (devinavery, 16:07:00)
   3. Tony's team working on bug fixes and increasing test coverage on MD-SAL (rgowrishankar, 16:08:45)
   4. dLux is a standalone project right now. (devinavery, 16:11:21)
   5. Dlux standalone bundle running using node.js (rgowrishankar, 16:11:22)
   6. uses restconf to retrieve the data in the UI. (devinavery, 16:11:28)
   7. Demo shows the ability to see flows and node connectors and the statistics. Anything in the md-sal inventory api can be shown in Dlux. All of it is java script based (rgowrishankar, 16:13:00)
   8. Topology is graph showing devices and the interconnects. Hovering on a switch shows all the interconnects for the switch. Capability to zoom in and zoom out. It currently picks up only the first topology in the network topology. Future enhancement: to show multiple topologies in tabs (rgowrishankar, 16:14:49)
   9. localhost:8080/dlux/index.html to load dlux ui (rgowrishankar, 16:15:52)
   10. pre-req: mvn, grunt. read me in dlux project has the reqs.. (rgowrishankar, 16:16:32)
   11. q:are requirements like pagination working their way back to the RESTCONF as enhancements? answer: need lots of enhancements from the restconf. Example: old ui had span port config, connection mgr, static route config which are not available for MD-SAL. (rgowrishankar, 16:18:32)
   12. : Matheiu working on a solution to the problem on how to let plugins bring applications to the ui. plan is to make ui more modular. people should be able to plugin code and pages by registering with dlux. (rgowrishankar, 16:19:44)
   13. : q: Luis: This calls the inventory and topology UI.. Can we show hosts? answer: L2switch is going to track the host information and we need to wait for that. (rgowrishankar, 16:21:15)
   14. : Need instructions for mac and windows to run dlux. (rgowrishankar, 16:21:31)
   15. : What needs to be done to get dlux into the distrbutions? Madhu working on creating jar file and putting it into nexus (maybe today). (rgowrishankar, 16:23:19)
   16. : yang ui. gathering modules from yang using the modules call. any model in the md-sal will be shown in the ui. (rgowrishankar, 16:25:07)
   17. : as data is typed in the request that will be sent to the controller is also shown and updated in real-time. Q: Do we also get the URI that the message is sent to? A: The URI is not yet auto-generated. (rgowrishankar, 16:27:07)
   18. : Make the enhancement to check the operational data after sending the config data. (rgowrishankar, 16:40:17)
   19. : can progress be made without waiting for the yin representation to be available? (rgowrishankar, 16:41:38)
   20. : ability to group the functionality by module to make navigation easier (rgowrishankar, 16:42:02)
   21. : the real ask to simplify the fields for users.. (rgowrishankar, 16:43:31)
   22. : if model is augmented in a different bundle, will the augmentation will show up here? if the module exposes data in xml or json format it will be possible. another Q: is it possible to link the flows view to the topology view? A: enhancement possible (rgowrishankar, 16:45:16)
   23. : timeline on these changes not known. Probably possible before next milestone (rgowrishankar, 16:46:32)
   24. : ability to quickly get started on md-sal project (rgowrishankar, 16:47:54)
   25. : wiki: GettingStarted:Developer_Main (rgowrishankar, 16:48:08)
   26. https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenDaylight_Toolkit:MD-SAL-Simple_Archetype Archetype LInk (devinavery, 16:48:22)
   27. : mvn:archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.opendaylight.toolkit -DarchetypeArtifactIf=md-sal-app-simple (rgowrishankar, 16:50:17)
   28. generate directory can be removed after folders have been generated (rgowrishankar, 16:52:07)
   29. : the config subsystem is already setup for you. It also provides stub codes to the databrokers to get the apis needed. (rgowrishankar, 16:56:31)

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