QoS detailed reporting of available QoS rules

https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1686035

Problem Description

With [1] different QoS rules can be supported by different backend drivers. Whether the driver can handle the given rule type, and the parameters passed with the rule, are validated only when the user wants to apply the rule to a port/network. With [2] merged, Neutron returns a list of all rule types supported by at least one of the enabled backends. This is not enough as users are unable to discover what values are supported by the back ends for each rule type

Proposed Change

We propose to add new API. This call would be used to get details of every available rule type.

REST API

New REST API call is:

GET /v2.0/qos/rule-types/{rule_type}

Request example:

GET /v2.0/qos/rule-types/bandwidth_limit

The response is a dict with details for the supported rule type for each of the enabled backends.

As parameter values can be returned:

• list of supported values if driver uses “type:values” validator from neutron-lib to validate this parameter

• dict with ‘start’ and ‘end’ value if driver uses “type:range” validator from neutron-lib to validate this parameter. Both ‘start’ and ‘end’ values are inclusive in the range.

QoS rule types uses only “type:values” and “type:range” validators currently and only those validators are supported by this spec.

This call should be available only for users with admin rights to not expose details about cloud infra to regular users.

Response example:

{
    "rule_type": {
        "type": "bandwidth_limit",
        "drivers": [
            {
                "name": "ovs",
                "supported_parameters": [
                    {
                        "parameter_name": "max_kbps",
                        "parameter_type": "range",
                        "parameter_values": {
                            "start": 0,
                            "end": 1000
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "parameter_name": "max_burst_kbps",
                        "parameter_type": "range",
                        "parameter_values": {
                            "start": 0,
                            "end": 1000
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "parameter_name": "direction",
                        "parameter_type": "choices",
                        "parameter_values": ["ingress", "egress"]
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "name": "linuxbridge",
                "supported_parameters": [
                    {
                        "parameter_name": "max_kbps",
                        "parameter_type": "range",
                        "parameter_values": {
                            "start": 0,
                            "end": 1000
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "parameter_name": "max_burst_kbps",
                        "parameter_type": "range",
                        "parameter_values": {
                            "start": 0,
                            "end": 1000
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "parameter_name": "direction",
                        "parameter_type": "choices",
                        "parameter_values": ["egress"]
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

References

[1] QoS improved validation mechanism for rules and port types [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/461257