[Gluster-devel] Writing a new xlator is made a bit easier now

[Atin Mukherjee]

This is nice Poornima!

~Atin

On 12/24/2015 11:32 AM, Poornima Gurusiddaiah wrote:
> Hi All, 
> 
> Here is a patch http://review.gluster.org/#/c/13061/ that creates the initial template for any new xlator that you wish to write. 
> 
> How to use: 
> $ python ./generate_xlator.py <XLATOR_DIRECTORY> <XLATOR_NAME> <FOP_SUFFIX> 
> 
> Eg: python ./generate_xlator.py /home/u1/glusterfs/xlators/features compression cmpr
> This command will create the following files with some initial contents like copyright, fops definition, header definition etc. : 
> * /home/u1/glusterfs/xlators/features/compression/Makefile.am 
> * /home/u1/glusterfs/xlators/features/compression/src/Makefile.am 
> * /home/u1/glusterfs/xlators/features/compression/src/compression.c 
> * /home/u1/glusterfs/xlators/features/compression/src/compression.h 
> * /home/u1/glusterfs/xlators/features/compression/src/compression-mem-types.h 
> * /home/u1/glusterfs/xlators/features/compression/src/compression-messages.h 
> 
> By default all the fops and other functions are generated, if you do not need to implement certain functions, delete those functions from the the file `config.py`. 
> One can customize the fop definition by changing CBK_TEMPLATE/FOP_TEMPLATE in generate_xlator.py.
> 
> This is an addition to Jeff's http://review.gluster.org/#/c/9411/
> Reviews are welcome.
> 
> Merry Christmas:)
> 
> Regards,
> Poornima
> 
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