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User story #2881

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Allow user to choose order of Directive application in a Rule

Added by François ARMAND over 11 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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Description

As reported by Michael Gliwinski (http://www.rudder-project.org/pipermail/rudder-users/2012-September/000094.html), sometimes, we would like to be able to specify the order of application of Directive in a Rule, because it does matter, even when convergence is taken into account [1]

So, we would like to be able to specify directive order in a rules.
More preciselly, that means being able to specify promise order in the bundlesequence.
Today, that's IMPOSSIBLE2.

A cool and clean solution would be to have a new Rule configuration screen, with one tab for each directive, and the tab order will give the directive orders.

[1], ok, actually if it matters, it must be that in some way, we don't converge, or that we forget some convergence cases. But sometimes, it is WAY easier to convergence to a given goal starting from some point than from other, and being able to specify order would allow that.

[2] because we "merge" directives from the same Technique in only one promise for a given node, for historical reason2, so that:

- given Technique A and B,
- directive A1 and A2 from A, B1 and B2 from B,
- rules R1 having A1 and B1, and R2 having A2 and B2, applied (in fine) to the same node N,
- then the generated bundlesequence for N looks like: bundlesequence(...some promise, A(1+2), ..., B(1+2), ...)

So that we just can't have R1 defining order A1 then B1 and R2 defining order B2 then A2. See #2880 for more details.


Subtasks 3 (0 open3 closed)

Architecture #7043: Make Rudder code use BundleOrder where it's neededReleasedNicolas CHARLES2015-07-29Actions
User story #7049: Port bundle order from cf-clerk to Rudder on branch 3.2ReleasedFrançois ARMAND2015-07-30Actions
Bug #7059: In UI, directives in a rule are not sorted as their bundle orderReleasedNicolas CHARLES2015-07-30Actions

Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Rudder - Bug #11289: Missing documentation on Directive orderingReleasedAlexis MoussetActions
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