[openstack-dev] XML Support for Nova v3 API

Jorge Williams jorge.williams at rackspace.com
Thu Jun 20 04:09:13 UTC 2013


There was a presentation by Pete Johnson in the San Diego summit about what we're  missing in OpenStack for enterprises and good support for XML was on the list:

http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/openstack-summit-sessions/presentation/enterprise-to-openstack-here-s-what-you-re-missing



On Jun 19, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> On 06/19/2013 08:34 PM, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> The current plan is to keep it and is what we have been doing so far
>> when porting extensions, but there are pretty obvious long term
>> development and test savings if we only have one API format to support.
> 
> We need to keep XML support. XML is clearly superior to JSON in all matters and enterprises won't use OpenStack unless there is XML support.
> 
> In fact, I think we should actually consider using XML for our configuration files instead of this silly INI format. I've been playing a lot recently with Jenkins' XML configuration files, and I think they're super easy to use and read.
> 
> Best,
> -jay
> 
> 
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