On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:44 PM, 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. > Supporting both was one of the benefits I identified in WSME. Think of it as a declarative layer for the API, just like SQLAlchemy has declarative table definitions. As a developer, you never have to think about the format of the data on the wire because by the time you get it in the API endpoint, it's an object. Doug > > -- > Russell Bryant > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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