whether they would prefer JSON or XML, regardless of what they use today.
I agree with George that weighing developer interest in writing some test cases is likely not the best measure of how widely the XML API is used in practice.
One last slightly unrelated point. There was discussion and a PPB decision not to maintain 3rd party APIs in core. Why does the EC2 API remain?
Cheers,
Christopher Ferris
IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Industry and Cloud Standards
Member, IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Software Group, Standards Strategy
email: chris...@us.ibm.com
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>Subject: Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] [nova] Call for Help --
>OpenStack API XML Support
>
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>On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:32 PM, George Reese <george.re...@imaginary.com>
>wrote:
>Why aren't the integration tests both XML and JSON?
>The simple answer is that no one has taken the time to write them.
>Our devstack exercises use the python client bindings. Tempest has
>json clients but no xml clients[1]. I think this demonstrates that
>there just isn't a huge desire for xml. Users that I have chatted
>with just seem to care that the api works and that they they have
>good bindings.
>
>I am definitely willing to be proven wrong on this point, but I'm
>secretly hoping everyone agrees with me. It is a lot of work to
>maintain three APIs (we are still maintaining EC2 as well) and keep
>them all functioning well, so if people are happy without OpenStack
>XML I would be perfectly content to deprecate it.
>
>Vish
>
>[1] https://github.com/openstack/tempest/tree/master/tempest/services
>/nova/xml
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