Decoupling database API & Utilities imports/access for neutron-lib

This work is not related to an enhancement request and therefore doesn’t have a RFE. Rather the intent herein is to discuss how we decouple neutron.db and related database imports/access as part of the overall neutron-lib effort.

Current neutron database access can be broken into the following high-level categories:

  • Database API & Utilities

  • Core & Extension Database Mixins

  • Database Resource Models

  • Database Migration

As the database access patterns span a wide range of logic/code, a set of specs will be proposed each focusing on a single access pattern.

This spec specifically addresses the Database API & Utilities access.

For current neutron-lib related blueprints, see [1] and [2].

Problem Description

As part of our neutron-lib effort, we need to decouple out-of-tree networking projects that depend on (e.g. import) neutron. However, today a large number of neutron consumers import database related neutron modules [3] [4] [5]. While some of these dependencies are rehomeable into neutron-lib without significant effort, others create a large dependency chain with neutron internals, coupling them to neutron itself.

The intent of this spec is to propose how we can rehome the neutron database API and utilities into neutron-lib breaking consumer dependencies on these neutron modules. The access patterns herein were gathered by inspecting usages of the respective modules using [3], [4], [5], [6].

Proposed Change

This spec proposes we rehome the generic database API/utility functionality into neutron-lib. The following considerations must be taken into account for all applicable code:

  • If the functionality is private and not used outside of neutron today, it can likely stay in neutron as private to reduce public API surface area.

  • If the functionality is private, but used outside of neutron, it’s a candidate for rehoming.

  • For code applicable to rehoming, determine the best form for the implementation. If used by non-OVO consumers then likely it’ll be necessary to rehome as “generic database logic”. However if applicable to OVO, it may make sense to incorporate the logic into neutron objects that will be rehomed in subsequent work.

When the work for this spec is done, we should no longer have any consumers using neutron’s database API or utils [3], [4], [5], [6], but rather using them from neutron-lib.

Subsequent subsections describe each module in greater detail.

Note that provisioning_blocks will be addressed in subsequent specs as it requires versioned objects and thus will need access to them via neutron-lib in order to implement.

Database API

The neutron.db.api module is used broadly today [3] and has already begun rehoming into neutron-lib [7]. Therefore this spec proposes we finish the database API rehoming work by:

  • Rehoming the remaining externally used functions in the API. This includes generic functions such as is_retriable as well as decorators like retry_db_errors and retry_if_session_inactive.

  • Removing deprecated and unused functions such as load_one_to_manys and get_session.

  • The osprofiler setup/initialization will need to be addressed to ensure proper profiling functionality.

  • Unit tests will need to be in place for the rehomed functionality; rehomed and/or written as needed.

  • Consuming the rehomed changes once released.

Generic Utils

The neutron.db._utils module contains generic logic and is thus used by some consumers today [4]. This spec therefore proposes we rehome the used functionality into neutron-lib by:

  • Rehoming the used functions such as resource_fields and get_marker_obj

  • Rehoming any functions use in the model query utils (see subsequent section) into neutron-lib.

  • Ensuring the proper unit test coverage is in place for the rehomed code.

  • Consuming the rehomed changes once released.

Model Query Utils

While today neutron.db._model_query is private, some consumers use it [5]. As this module contains generic database logic, it’s a candidate for rehoming to neutron-lib as a generic model hook module by:

  • Rehoming the logic in the _model_query module itself to neutron-lib.

  • Ensuring the generic utils are in lib that are required for this module. See the previous section on generic utils.

  • Rehoming the few used functions from neutron.common.utils used in the module query module. These are generic in nature and thus don’t raise any red flags for rehoming.

  • Rehoming neutron.objects.utils to neutron-lib as its used in the model query logic.

  • Ensuring the proper unit test coverage is in place for the rehomed code.

  • Consuming the rehomed changes once released.

Resource Extend

The neutron.db._resource_extend module is used by consumers today [6] and as it contains generic functionality, can also move into neutron-lib by:

  • Rehoming the resource extend module into neutron-lib.

  • Rehoming the single generic neutron.common.util function required by the module into neutron-lib.

  • Ensuring the proper unit test coverage is in place for the rehomed code.

  • Consuming the rehomed changes once released.

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