[placement] [translation][i18n] translating exceptions

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Thu Feb 21 18:56:28 UTC 2019


Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> writes:

> On 2/21/2019 11:07 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> Does an end-user interact with placement directly, or are all of the
>> errors going to be seen and handled by other services that will report
>> their own errors to end users?
>
> The Placement APIs are admin-only by default. That can be configured via 
> policy but assume it's like Ironic and admin-only for the most part.
>
> Speaking of, what does Ironic do about translations in its API?
>
> As for the question at hand, I'm OK with *not* translating errors in 
> placement for both the admin-only aspect and the push to use standard 
> codes in error responses which can be googled.
>
> FWIW I also shared this thread on WeChat to see if anyone has an opinion 
> there.
>
> -- 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>

I agree. If placement isn't meant for cloud end-users to interact with,
I don't see a lot of benefit to translating the error messages coming
through the API.

-- 
Doug



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