Merge branch 'master' into senslab2

[sfa.git] / sfa / managers / driver.py

diff --git a/sfa/managers/driver.py b/sfa/managers/driver.py
index f48964f..6b2681c 100644 (file)
--- a/sfa/managers/driver.py
+++ b/sfa/managers/driver.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # an attempt to document what a driver class should provide, 
 # and implement reasonable defaults
 #
-
+import sys
 class Driver:
     
     def __init__ (self, config): 
@@ -13,12 +13,9 @@ class Driver:
     ########## registry oriented
     ########################################
 
-    # redefine this if you want to check again records 
-    # when running GetCredential
-    # This is to reflect the 'enabled' user field in planetlab testbeds
-    # expected retcod boolean
-    def is_enabled (self, record) : 
-        return True
+    # NOTE: the is_enabled method is deprecated
+    # it was only making things confusing, as the (PL) import mechanism would
+    # ignore not enabled users anyway..
 
     # the following is used in Resolve (registry) when run in full mode
     #     after looking up the sfa db, we wish to be able to display
@@ -29,6 +26,7 @@ class Driver:
     # this constraint, based on the principle that SFA should not rely on the
     # testbed database to perform such a core operation (i.e. getting rights right)
     def augment_records_with_testbed_info (self, sfa_records):
+        print >>sys.stderr, "  \r\n \r\n DRIVER.PY augment_records_with_testbed_info sfa_records ",sfa_records
         return sfa_records
 
     # incoming record, as provided by the client to the Register API call
@@ -60,6 +58,15 @@ class Driver:
     def update (self, old_sfa_record, new_sfa_record, hrn, new_key): 
         return True
 
+    # callack for register/update
+    # this allows to capture changes in the relations between objects
+    # the ids below are the ones found in the 'pointer' field
+    # this can get typically called with
+    # 'slice' 'user' 'researcher' slice_id user_ids 
+    # 'authority' 'user' 'pi' authority_id user_ids 
+    def update_relation (self, subject_type, target_type, relation_name, subject_id, link_ids):
+        pass
+
     ########################################
     ########## aggregate oriented
     ########################################