Mice - I suggest you to open an enhancement for this. Resource tags limitation might be due to the fact that some of the tags in the db table should not exceed size of 255.
Thanks, -Nitin On 30/01/13 10:22 AM, "Mice Xia" <mice_...@tcloudcomputing.com> wrote: >+1 for using right http method for true restful web service in the future. > >And by the way, does 'create resource tag(s) API' have the same >requirement? Max length of tag value is 255 now. > >Regards >Mice > >-----Original Message----- >From: Nitin Mehta [mailto:nitin.me...@citrix.com] >Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:31 PM >To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] DeployVirtualMachine userdata enhancements > >Good point Rohit, but I suggest making only those API's POST which create >a resource (like deployVm here) and not all of them. >Ideally, we need to be using the right http methods for a true restful >web service. > >Also about the length part, how then we allow user data to be of size 2kb >currently ? > >On 30/01/13 9:43 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > >>+1 But if we are sending base64 encoded userdata as part of POST, we >>can increase the limit even further. >> >>-1 If userdata will be sent as part of GET query, based on the rfc [1] >>and from the widely used ugliest web browser [2] the GET url length >>should be <= 2000 (we're already exceeding that how we send userdata >>request at present). >> >>Suggestion: Make POST as the default way of requesting apis from mgmt >>server. >> >>[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html >>[2] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q208427 >> >>Regards. >> >>On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Hari Kannan <hari.kan...@citrix.com> >>wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I wish to propose increasing the size of userdata to be passed along >>>with DeployVirtualMachine API - I have added some info here >>>https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/DeployVirtualMa >>>chi >>>ne+userdata+enhancements >>> along with a JIRA ticket >>>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1086 >>> >>> >>> Please review and comment >>> >>> Hari Kannan >
