Greetings, Recently Sean Dague started some threads [1][2] about the future of XML support in Nova's compute API. Specifically, he proposed [3] that we drop XML support in the next major version of the API (v3). I wanted to follow up on this to make the outcome clear.
I feel that we should move forward with this proposal and drop XML support from the v3 compute API. The ongoing cost in terms of development, maintenance, documentation, and verification has been quite high. After talking to a number of people about this, I do not feel that keeping it provides enough value to justify the cost. Even though we may be dropping it now, I will not say that we will *never* support it in the future. If there is enough interest (and work behind it) in the future, we could revisit a new implementation that is easier to support long term. For now, we will stick to what we know works, and that is the JSON API. Thanks, [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-January/024134.html [2] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/2014-January/004638.html [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/remove-v3-xml-api -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
