We spoke about some nice validation frameworks at the summit, and here and there.
Could we get away with XML->JSON then validate the JSON request (and assume XML parse error also means bad request)? John On 20 June 2013 17:44, Russell Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/20/2013 12:00 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Christopher Yeoh wrote: >>> Just wondering what people thought about how necessary it is to keep XML >>> support for the Nova v3 API, given that if we want to drop it doing so >>> during the v2->v3 transition is pretty much the ideal time to do so. >> >> Although I hate XML as much as anyone else, I think it would be >> interesting to raise that question on the general user mailing-list. >> >> We have been discussing that in the past, and while there was mostly >> consensus against XML (in OpenStack API) on the development list, when >> the issue was raised with users, in the end they made up a >> sufficiently-good rationale for us to keep it in past versions of the API :) >> > > Yes, and I suspect we'd arrive the same result again. > > I'd rather hear ideas for things that would make it easier to support > both. The window is open for changes to make that easier. > > -- > Russell Bryant > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
