[openstack-dev] [neutron][all] when can we drop XML support in neutronclient? Now?

Doug Wiegley dougwig at parksidesoftware.com
Sat Dec 5 07:18:00 UTC 2015



> On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 3 December 2015 at 08:33, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> python-neutronclient still has XML support of Neutron API.
>>> I would like to discuss when we drop XML support in neutronclient.
>>> 
>>> Neutron API XML suppoort was marked as deprecated in Icehouse and Juno
>>> and was dropped in Kilo. Juno is now EOL and we have no gate testing which
>>> requires XML support. This is a minimum requirement.
>>> From this point, we can drop XML support now.
>>> 
>>> Another point is users who are OpenStack clouds using Juno or older versions
>>> may use the latest python-neutronclient.
>>> XML support in Neutron was deprecated since Icehouse, and if our deprecation
>>> notice works, XML API is used only in cloud deployed before Icehouse.
>>> In addition, older versions of neutronclient are available from
>>> various distributions and PyPI.
>>> Do we need to continue XML support for users of such cloud?
>>> Note that we no longer have a way to test XML API support is functional.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Akihiro
>> 
>> Let’s not pretend anything ungated works in OpenStack world. If we don’t have infra to validate it, we should kill the support for it.
> 
> Kill it already! :)

With fire!


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>> Ihar
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