[HELIX-202] Ideal state should be a full mapping, not just a set of instance preferences

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0-incubating
• Assignee: Kanak Biscuitwala
• Reporter: Kanak Biscuitwala
• Created: 09/Aug/13 17:41
• Updated: 13/Nov/13 04:43
• Resolved: 26/Aug/13 21:42

Description

Currently, we define and use the IdealState as a set of node preferences for each partition. This is confusing to a user because it's more of an intermediate structure when the name conveys that it is how the cluster should ideally be in full detail.