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8 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
10 The format is based on `Keep a Changelog <http://keepachangelog.com/>`__
11 and this project adheres to `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>`__.
20 * Upgrade to rmr 3.8.0
21 * Upgrade integration tests to xapp-frame-go version 0.4.8 which drops NNG
22 * Extend exception handler to return error details in HTTP response
23 * Ensure that policy type ID on path matches ID in object
24 * Add OpenAPI spec to RST documentation
31 * Switch to using rmr in the ricxappframe
39 * Switch to SI95 from NNG (rmr v3 vs rmr v1)
40 * The switch to SI95 led to a rabbit hole in which we eventually discovered that rmr_send may sometimes block for an arbitrary period of time. Because of this issue, a1's sends are now threaded. Please see the longer comment about this in a1rmr.
41 * Bump version of py xapp frame (SDL used only) in A1
42 * Bump version of go xapp frame (0.0.24 -> 0.4.2) in integration tests
43 * Add some additional logging in A1
50 * SDL Wrapper was moved into the python xapp framework; use it from there instead.
57 * This is a pretty big amount of work/changes, however no APIs were changed hence the semver patch
58 * Switches A1's three test receivers (integration tests) over to golang; this was mostly done to learn the go xapp framework and they are identical in functionality.
59 * Upgrades the version of rmr in A1 and all integration receivers to 1.13.*
60 * Uses a much fancier Docker build to reduce the size of a1's image. The python:3.7-alpine image itself is 98MB and A1 is now only ~116MB, so we're done optimizing A1's container size.
67 * Upgrades from sdl 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
68 * Integrates an sdl healthcheck into a1's healthcheck
76 * Upgrades from sdl 1.0.0 to 2.0.2
77 * Delete a1test_helpers because SDL 2.0.2 provides the mockup we need
78 * Remove general catch all from A1
85 * Represents a resillent version of 2.0.0 that uses Redis for persistence
86 * Now relies on SDL and dbaas; SDL is the python interface library to dbaas
87 * Adds a 503 http code to nearly all http methods, as A1 now depends on an upstream system
88 * Integration tests have a copy of a dbaas helm chart, however the goal is to simplify that deployment per https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/RIC-45
89 * Unit tests have a mockup of SDL, however again the goal is to simplify as SDL grows per https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/RIC-44
96 * Implements new logic around when instances are deleted. See flowcharts in docs/. Basically timeouts now trigger to actually delete instances from a1s database, and these timeouts are configurable.
97 * Eliminates the barrier to deleting an instance when no xapp evdr replied (via timeouts)
98 * Add two new ENV variables that control timeouts
99 * Make unit tests more modular so new workflows can be tested easily
100 * Fixes the API for ../status to return a richer structure. This is an (albeit tiny) API change.
101 * Clean up unused items in the integration tests helm chart
102 * Removed "RMR_RCV_RETRY_INTERVAL" leftovers since this isn't used anymore
103 * Uses the standard RIC logging library
104 * Switch the backend routing scheme to using subscription id with constant message types, per request.
105 * Given the above, policy type ids can be any valid 32bit greater than 0
106 * Decouple the API between northbound and A1 from A1 with xapps. This is now two seperate OpenAPI files
107 * Update example for AC Xapp
108 * Updgrade rmr and rmr-python to utilize new features; lots of cleanups because of that
109 * Implements a POLICY QUERY feature where A1 listens for queries for a policy type. A1 then responds via multiple RTS messages every policy instance of that policy type (and expects an ACK back from xapps as usual). This feature can be used for xapp recovery etc.
116 * Only external change here is to healthcheck the rmr thread as part of a1s healthcheck. k8s will now respin a1 if that is failing.
117 * Refactors (simplifies) how we wait for rmr initialization; it is now called as part of __init__
118 * Refactors (simplifies) how the thread is actually launched; it is now internal to the object and also a part of __init__
119 * Cleans up unit testing; a1rmr now exposes a replace_rcv_func; useful for unit testing, harmless if not called otherwise
120 * Upgrades to rmr-python 1.0.0 for simpler message allocation
127 * Move database cleanup (e.g., deleting instances based on statuses) into the polling loop
128 * Rework how unit testing works with the polling loop; prior, exceptions were being thrown silently from the thread but not printed. The polling thread has now been paramaterized with override functions for the purposes of testing
129 * Make type cleanup more efficient since we know exactly what instances were touched, and it's inefficient to iterate over all instances if they were not
130 * Bump rmr-python version, and bump rmr version
131 * Still an item left to do in this work; refactor the thread slightly to tie in a healthcheck with a1s healthcheck. We need k8s to restart a1 if that thread dies too.
138 * a1 now has a seperate, continuous polling thread
139 this will enable operations like database cleanup (based on ACKs) and external notifications in real time,
140 rather than when the API is invoked
141 * all rmr send and receive operations are now in this thread
142 * introduces a thread safe job queue between the two threads
143 * Not done yet: database cleanups in the thread
144 * Bump rmr python version
145 * Clean up some logging
152 * Moves the "database" access calls to mimick the SDL API, in preparation for moving to SDL
153 * Does not yet actually use SDL or Redis, but the transition to those will be much shorter after this change.
161 * Represents v1.0.0 of the A1 API for O-RAN-SC Release A
163 - Implement type DELETE
164 - Clean up where policy instance cleanups happen
172 * Upgrade rmr to 1.9.0
173 * Upgrade rmr-python to 0.13.2
174 * Use the new helpers module in rmr-python for the rec all functionality
175 * Switch rmr mode to a multithreaded mode that continuously reads from rmr and populates an internal queue of messages with a deterministic queue size (2048) which is better behavior for A1
176 * Fix a memory leak (python obj is garbage collected but not the underlying C memory allocation)
185 * Implement instance delete
186 * Moves away from the status vector and now aggregates statuses
187 * Pop through a1s mailbox "3x as often"; on all 3 kinds of instance GET since all such calls want the latest information
188 * Misc cleanups in controller (closures ftw)
189 * Add rmr-version.yaml for CICD jobs
196 * Implement GET all policy type ids
197 * Implement GET all policy instance ids for a policy type
198 * fix a tiny bug in integration test receiver
206 * switch to rmr 1.8.1 to pick up a non blocking variant of rmr that deals with bad routing tables (no hanging connections / blocking calls)
207 * improve test receiver to behave with this setup
208 * add integration test for this case
209 * this also switches past 1.5.x, which included another change that altered the behavior of rts; deal with this with a change to a1s helmchart (env: `RMR_SRC_ID`) that causes the sourceid to be set to a1s service name, which was not needed prior
210 * improve integration tests overall
220 * Remove RIC manifest
221 * Read type GET to get schema for instance PUT
222 * Remove Utils (no longer needed)
223 * lots more tests (unit and integration)
230 * This is on the road to release 1.0.0. It is not meant to be tested (E2E) as it's own release
231 * Implement the Release A spec in the openapi.yaml
232 * Rework A1 to follow that spec
233 * Remove rmr_mapping now that we use policyid as the mtype to send and a well known mtype for the ACKs
234 * Add the delay receiver test to the tavern integration tests
235 * Remove unneeded ENV variables from helm charts
236 * Switch away from builder images to avoid quicksand; upgrade rmr at our own pace
244 * Update to later rmr-python
245 * Add docs about upgrading rmr
246 * remove bombarder since tavern runs apache bench
254 * Update to later rmr-python
261 * Greatly reduce the size of A1 docker from 1.25GB to ~278MB.
262 * Add a seperate dockerfile for unit testing
270 * Rename all /ric/ URLs to be consistent with requirements of /a1-p/
278 * Implement the GET on policies
279 * Add a new endpoint for healthcheck. NOTE, it has been decided by oran architecture documents that this policy interface should be named a1-p in all URLS. In a future release the existing URLs will be renamed (existing URLs were not changed in this release).
287 * Fix the 400, which was in the API, but wasn't actually implemented
288 * Update the test fixture manifests to reflect the latest adm control, paves way for next feature coming which is a policy GET
297 * Use base Docker with NNG version 1.1.1
306 * Upgrade RMR due to a bug that was preventing rmr from init in kubernetes
315 * Run unit tests as part of docker build
324 * Convert docs to appropriate format
325 * Move rmr string to int mapping to a file
334 * Use tavern to test the actual running docker container
335 * Restructures the integration tests to run as a single tox command
336 * Re-ogranizes the README and splits out the Developers guide, which is not needed by users.
344 * Adds a defense mechanism against A1 getting queue-overflowed with messages A1 doesnt care about; A1 now ignores all incoming messages it's not waiting for, so it's queue size should now always be "tiny", i.e., never exceeding the number of valid requests it's waiting for ACKs back for
345 * Adds a test "bombarding" script that tests this
353 * Main purpose of this change is to fix a potential race condition where A1 sends out M1 expecting ACK1, and while waiting for ACK1, sends out M2 expecting ACK2, but gets back ACK2, ACK1. Prior to this change, A1 may have eaten ACK2 and never fufilled the ACK1 request.
354 * Fix a bug in the unit tests (found using a fresh container with no RIC manifest!)
355 * Fix a (critical) bug in a1rmr due to a rename in the last iteration (RMR_ERR_RMR_RCV_RETRY_INTERVAL)
356 * Make unit tests faster by setting envs in tox
357 * Move to the now publically available rmr-python
358 * Return a 400 if am xapp does not expect a body, but the PUT provides one
359 * Adds a new test policy to the example RIC manifest and a new delayed receiver to test the aformentiond race condition
367 * Upgrade to rmr 0.10.0
368 * Fix bad api spec RE GET
369 * Fix a (big) bug where transactionid wasn't being checked, which wouldn't have worked on sending two policies to the same downstream policy handler
377 * Rip some testing structures out of here that should have been in rmr (those are now in rmr 0.9.0, upgrade to that)
378 * Run Python BLACK for formatting
386 * Fix a blocking execution bug by moving from rmr's timeout to a non blocking call + retry loop + asyncronous sleep
387 * Changes the ENV RMR_RCV_TIMEOUT to RMR_RCV_RETRY_INTERVAL
395 * Update to rmr 0.8.3
396 * Change 503 to 504 for the case where downstream does not reply, per recommendation
397 * Add a 502 with different reasons if the xapp replies but with a bad/malformed/missing status
398 * Make testing much more modular, in anticipating of moving some unit test functionality into rmr itself
406 * Crash immediately if manifest isn't mounted
407 * Add unit tests for utils
416 * Upgrade A1 to rmr 0.8.0
417 * Go from deb RMR installation to git
418 * Remove obnoxious receiver logging
426 * Upgrade A1 to rmr 0.6.0
434 * Add license headers
442 * Introduce RIC Manifest
443 * Move some testing functionality into a helper module
444 * Read the policyname to rmr type mapping from manifest
445 * Do PUT payload validation based on the manifest
453 * Bump rmr python dep version
454 * Include a Dockerized test receiver
455 * Stencil out the mising GET
457 * Include a test docker compose file
465 * Initial Implementation