On 16 Jan 2014, at 12:36, Dean Troyer <dtro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've already written a POC for solum and some other things to demonstrate how 
> to add additional projects simply by installing the python-*client package.  
> https://github.com/dtroyer/python-oscplugin is a trivial example.

Thanks, this link is helpful.
> In terms of granularity and easiness of development I’m for keeping them 
> separate but have them use the same boilerplate code, basically we need a 
> OpenStack Rest Client Framework which is flexible enough to address all the 
> needs in an abstract domain agnostic manner. I would assume that combining 
> them would be an additional organizational burden that every stakeholder 
> would have to deal with.
> If it is not a library that is actually shared you will get back to the 
> current situation over time. 

How is that different from any other oslo stuff?
> Has anyone ever considered an idea of generating a fully functional REST 
> client automatically based on an API specification (WADL could be used for 
> that)? Not sure how convenient it would be, it really depends on a particular 
> implementation, but as an idea it could be at least thought of. Sounds a 
> little bit crazy though, I recognize it :).
> 
> When you have stable and accurate documents of this sort, let's talk.  You 
> may have noticed that few (any?) of the recent major API revs are documented 
> in this manner…

There’s still something to work on for us.. As far as what I’ve written, just a 
crazy idea that came to my mind. After all, everyone’s phone has lots of things 
that were considered crazy years ago.

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