Contributing¶
Contributing to Networking-generic-switch¶
If you would like to contribute to the development of GenericSwitch project, you must follow the general OpenStack community procedures documented at:
Pull requests submitted through GitHub will be ignored.
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Creating new device plugins¶
- Subclass the abstract class
networking_generic_switch.devices.GenericSwitch
and implement all the abstract methods it defines.- Your class must accept a single argument for instantiation -
- a dictionary with all fields given in the device config section
of the ML2 plugin config.
This will be available as
self.config
in the instantiated object.
- Register your class under
generic_switch.devices
entrypoint. - Add your device config to the plugin configuration file
(
/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_genericswitch.ini
by default). The only required option isdevice_type
that must be equal to the entrypoint you have registered your plugin under, as it is used for plugin lookup (see providedNetmiko
-based plugins for example).