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<div>As part of my work on Tempest, I've created an alternate backend configuration to use XML requests/responses. This right now mostly covers Nova, but could easily be extended to test other projects as well. I hadn't pushed it yet because it seemed to be
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<div>On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Doug Davis <<a href="mailto:dug@us.ibm.com">dug@us.ibm.com</a>></div>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Situations like this are always interesting to watch. :-)</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">On the one hand its open-source, so if you care about something then put up the resources to make it happen.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">On the other hand, that doesn't mean that as a developer you get to ignore the bigger picture and only do 1/2 of the work because you don't care about the other 1/2.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Overall, I tend to agree with the attitude that as long as XML is officially supported then all code changes need to make sure they run through both the JSON and XML codepaths. And if this means twice the testcases then so be
it. People committing code shouldn't have a choice in this - its either you do the full job or your code is rejected.</font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Having said that, it is a valid question to ask whether we want to continue to support both JSON and XML going forward. But, until that decision is formally made letting 1/2 of the APIs atrophy makes the entire community look
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">My vote: from now on don't let any code change in unless if works for both. I suspect we'll either see the XML side come up to speed really quickly or it'll force an ugly vote. But either way, this needs to be resolved before
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<font size="3">And this is why I go off on the developer-oriented mentality of the OpenStack community.</font>
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<font size="3">The fact that there is no one in the OpenStack developer community writing XML stuff is not a reflection of the fact that there's no huge desire for XML.</font>
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<font size="3">It's in the spec for a reason: BECAUSE ENTERPRISES USE XML HEAVILY</font>
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<font size="3">OpenStack developers aren't that audience. They use JSON.</font> <br>
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<font size="3">That the project can get to this point and not have tests for these things shows a flaw in the development processes, not some grand illustration of supply and demand.</font>
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<font size="3">Do I really have to point out that if the spec calls for JSON and XML, you should bloody well write integration tests to check for JSON and XML?</font>
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<font size="3">You know how I know all of this? I have an API that supports both XML and JSON. I personally prefer JSON. Most of my friends and colleagues prefer and use JSON.</font>
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<font size="3">Most of my customers use XML.</font> <br>
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<font size="3">Thank $deity I actually write unit tests for each format.</font> <br>
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<font size="3">On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <</font><a href="mailto:vishvananda@gmail.com"><font size="3" color="blue"><u>vishvananda@gmail.com</u></font></a><font size="3">> wrote:</font>
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<font size="3">On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:32 PM, George Reese <</font><a href="mailto:george.reese@imaginary.com"><font size="3" color="blue"><u>george.reese@imaginary.com</u></font></a><font size="3">> wrote:</font>
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<font size="3">The simple answer is that no one has taken the time to write them. Our devstack exercises use the python client bindings. Tempest has json clients but no xml clients[1]. I think this demonstrates that there just isn't a huge desire for xml. Users
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<font size="3">I am definitely willing to be proven wrong on this point, but I'm secretly hoping everyone agrees with me. It is a lot of work to maintain three APIs (we are still maintaining EC2 as well) and keep them all functioning well, so if people are
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<font size="3">[1] </font><a href="https://github.com/openstack/tempest/tree/master/tempest/services/nova/xml"><font size="3" color="blue"><u>https://github.com/openstack/tempest/tree/master/tempest/services/nova/xml</u></font></a>
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