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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333">Hey,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333">The formal OpenStack documentation regarding Server's metadata attribute is that this attribute is optional.<br>
When looking into the API responses for listServers or getServer - once an attribute is an optional one, then the general behavior of the serialization into API response is not to include/mention the attribute in the responses.<br>
My question is what is expected from the metadata attribute? Because, when I am running against an OpenStack node - I still have the metadata included/mentioned in the responses even though it is empty.<br>
Moreover, all the documentation examples for the above APIs, listServers or getServer - the metadata attribute is not included/mentioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333">Can someone explain?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333">Maty.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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