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Sorry,

that was by mistake.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Rishi Raj Singh <rishiraj.devel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 7i
> On Mar 3, 2015 8:30 PM, "Radoslaw Zarzynski" <rzarzynski at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I would like discuss a problem which can be seen in Horizon: breaking
>> the boundaries of public, well-specified Object Storage API in favour
>> of utilizing a Swift-specific extensions. Ticket #1297173 [1] may serve
>> as a good example of such violation. It is about relying on
>> non-standard (in the terms of OpenStack Object Storage API v1) and
>> undocumented HTTP header provided by Swift. In order to make
>> Ceph RADOS Gateway work correctly with Horizon, developers had to
>> inspect sources of Swift and implement the same behaviour.
>>
>> From my perspective, that practise breaks the the mission of OpenStack
>> which is much more than delivering yet another IaaS/PaaS implementation.
>> I think its main goal is to provide a universal set of APIs covering all
>> functional areas relevant for cloud computing, and to place that set
>> of APIs in front as many implementations as possible. Having an open
>> source reference implementation of a particular API is required to prove
>> its viability, but is secondary to having an open and documented API.
>>
>> I have full understanding that situations where the public OpenStack
>> interfaces are insufficient to get the work done might exist.
>> However, introduction of dependency on implementation-specific feature
>> (especially without giving the users a choice via e.g. some
>> configuration option) is not the proper way to deal with the problem.
>> From my point of view, such cases should be handled with adoption of
>> new, carefully designed and documented version of the given API.
>>
>> In any case I think that Horizon, at least basic functionality, should
>> work with any storage which provides Object Storage API.
>> That being said, I'm willing to contribute such patches, if we decide
>> to go that way.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Radoslaw Zarzynski
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1297173
>>
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