On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:

> It is like the Paypal sandbox. There are external parties who build apps
> that call APIs. But then again, they don't want to call the real production
> API because that would lead to real transactions, in the payment gateway
> case, transfer of real money. So, Paypal has provided sandbox APIs, which
> are in production, for external parties to first use when they are building
> their apps.
>
> The API lifecycle is an orthogonal concept. The developers of the API
> itself are the ones who are in concern when it comes to the API lifecycle.
> Paypal would have newer versions of its APIs in some non-production
> lifecycle stage, but they will not expose those for external parties to
> write apps against.
>

Yes, agree with Azeez. However we'll have the design in such a way that we
can add an environment if needed. And for the time being go with production
and sandbox environments only.

>
> Azeez
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sandbox & production, are both environments in the production stage. The
>>> dev, QA & staging APIs are separately accessible to developers. There is
>>> only one sandbox.
>>>
>>
>> What is the difference between sandbox and staging?  Why do I have to run
>> a separate sanbox cloud?
>>
>> If the same version is in production is in QA too, why cannot I use that
>> as an environment in my API-M for one group the staging for another and
>> production for still another? I have the cloud running anyway, why isn't my
>> API-M instance flexible?
>>
>> For e.g. we always share our milestone packs with the users. We can do
>> the same with the APIs.
>>
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