vessel renew functionality on GENI portal about clearinghouse

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Author: alpers
Would you like me to tackle the functionality of this (say in vessel_ops.mix)?

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Author: ivan
Sure, it would be great if you do this. But note that this requires a couple of things:

• A new field in VesselPorts to store the number of times a vessel has been renewed
• A new set of buttons on the vessel page where the use can trigger renewal
• A new field on the vessel page where the user can see the number of renewals left
• Corresponding view that will handle the user's action in views.py
• Corresponding code in vessel_ops and in models to make sure that the database gets updated consistently and that the user does not renew the vessel more times than the maximum allowed number of times.

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Author: justinc
Milestone Geni Portal v2.1 Release deleted

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Author: monzum
I don't think the users have this option yet, it maybe added in the future.

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Author: jsamuel
This is a feature that needs to be added to the new seattlegeni.

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Author: jsamuel
When this is implemented, it might make sense to implement #222 at the same time.

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Author: jsamuel
Fixed in r3093. The only vessel renewal available is a renewal for 7 days. Newly acquired vessels still have an initial expiration of 4 hours. I don't feel we need to offer options for how long to renew for, as I don't believe most people will not be inclined to choose anything less than the maximum. So the goal is to choose something long enough that they won't have vessels expire by accident but not so long that vessels will go unused. I think 7 days is a good choice. I'd be happy to make it longer, but I think making it shorter than 7 days would be a bad idea.

The number of seconds until expiration is now included in the info dicts available through xmlrpc (along with the ability to renew vessels).

The following wiki pages have been updated accordingly:

wiki:SeattleGeniAPI
wiki:SeattleGeniClientLib