Pass whether service is primary or subordinate via relation

[Haw Loeung]

Hi,

Is it possible to include whether a service/charm is primary or subordinate via the relation (which currently passes unit name, public, and private IP, and service name).

An example of where this is useful would be in the NRPE monitoring charms where it generates hostnames using servicename and unit number. Unfortunately, this can fail because it could be using the wrong relation to work out service name and unit number.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~charmers/charms/precise/nrpe-external-master/trunk/view/head:/hooks/config-changed#L90

[Cheryl Jennings (cherylj)]

Seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to add this information. I'll ask for some input on how to best convey the info.

[Haw Loeung (hloeung)]

Any updates on this?

Another example is container-log-archive where it tries to get the correct servicename to use as the swift bucket to upload/archive logs to.

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

Removing 2.1 milestone as we will not be addressing this issue in 2.1.

[Tim Kuhlman (timkuhlman)]

I have submitted a code fix to https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/7142

[Joel Sing (jsing)]

This has been implemented in in https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/7143, which has been merged.