[openstack-dev] Is WSME really suitable? (Was: [nova] Autogenerating the Nova v3 API specification)

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
Mon Aug 12 13:54:14 UTC 2013


There's a fix for this in WSME trunk, but it only works with Pecan at the
moment. Now that I'm back from vacation, I will resume working on getting
WSME onto StackForge and a new release cut.

Doug


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Devananda van der Veen <
devananda.vdv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Mac Innes, Kiall <kiall at hp.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/08/13 21:56, Jonathan LaCour wrote:
>> > James Slagle <james.slagle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> WSME + pecan is being used in Tuskar:
>> >> https://github.com/tuskar/tuskar (OpenStack management API)
>> >>
>> >> We encountered the same issue discussed here.  A solution we settled
>> >> on for now was to use a custom Renderer class that could handle
>> >> different response codes.  You set the renderer in the call to
>> >> pecan.make_app.  This was meant to be a temporary solution until
>> >> there's better support in WSME.
>> >
>> > If there is anything I can do on the Pecan side, let me know! Happy to
>> build in new functionality to make this easier, in general. It does seem to
>> make sense to be fixed on the WSME side, though.
>> >
>> > Best --
>> >
>> > - Jonathan
>>
>> Nah - this is entirely on the WSME side :)
>>
>> WSME translate all exceptions that don't extend their ClientExcption to
>> HTTP 500, and anything that does to HTTP 400.
>>
>> Beyond that, you only have the "default status code" to work with - 401,
>> 404, 503 etc are all off limits with stock WSME. Literally you have a
>> default code for successful requests, and 400 or 500. Nothing else.
>>
>> It seems like Ceilometer has worked there way around it using the
>> "_lookup" method for 404's (but I can't find how they return any other
>> status codes..), and libra + tuskar have replaced the WSME error
>> handling for something entirely custom.
>>
>> We're not massively interested in replacing WSME's error handling with
>> something custom, so our plan is to just use Pecan and ignore WSME for
>> the Designate v2 API. When it's ready, hopefully the switch won't be too
>> painful!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kiall
>>
>>
> Ironic is also using WSME, and has been bitten by this issue. In certain
> situations we want to return either a 200 or a 202, which doesn't work for
> the same reasons.
>
> -Deva
>
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