[openstack-dev] [python-openstackclient][python-openstacksdk][neutron][nova] supporting resource extensions with our CLI

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 12:37:55 UTC 2017


On 08/08/2017 12:39 AM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2017-08-07 14:33:22 -0500:
>> There is nothing like this for Nova so I'm not sure why Nova should be
>> involved here. We dropped all support for extending the API via
>> stevedore extension loading in Pike [1]. The virt drivers don't extend
>> the REST API either.
>>
>> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/api-no-more-extensions-pike
>>
> 
> And there was much rejoicing.
> 
> If the thing you're doing doesn't fit in the mainline API, then what
> you're doing is making a new API. Extensions just bypass the important
> part where that API gets designed and thought through.

100 times this.

-jay



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