[openstack-dev] [nova] solving API case sensitivity issues

Chris Friesen chris.friesen at windriver.com
Wed Feb 24 23:56:39 UTC 2016


On 02/24/2016 02:34 PM, Sean Dague wrote:

> There are no urls stored here. This is content coming through the body.
> While I do appreciate many folks weighing in that haven't read the bug
> yet, I would be even better if people did read the bug first.
>
> We have the ability to decide at the API level what the behavior is of
> payloads in POST / GET. Given the majority of our users are on mysql,
> they've never had access to case sensitive overlapping metadata on
> aggregates before. Doing so seems odd and potentially confusing.

On the other hand, coming from a UNIX environment where case sensitivity is the 
default, it seems odd that we'd intentionally become case-insensitive.

For option 2 do we need to actually update the DB column description?  Or is 
there a way to alter the query to be case-insensitive without altering the 
column itself (using collate maybe)?

Chris



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