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There are lots of nice things we could do, given time and people. But 
the reality is that relatively few people are actually working on the 
API code, documentation, tooling around it.

I would much rather have us deliver a world class JSON API with 
validation and schema and comprehensive testing, than the current state 
of our JSON + XML approach which is poorly documented and only partially 
tested.

	-Sean

On 06/20/2013 01:08 PM, John Garbutt wrote:
> We spoke about some nice validation frameworks at the summit, and here
> and there.
>
> Could we get away with XML->JSON then validate the JSON request (and
> assume XML parse error also means bad request)?
>
> John
>
> On 20 June 2013 17:44, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 06/20/2013 12:00 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>> Christopher Yeoh wrote:
>>>> Just wondering what people thought about how necessary it is to keep XML
>>>> support for the Nova v3 API, given that if we want to drop it doing so
>>>> during the v2->v3 transition is pretty much the ideal time to do so.
>>>
>>> Although I hate XML as much as anyone else, I think it would be
>>> interesting to raise that question on the general user mailing-list.
>>>
>>> We have been discussing that in the past, and while there was mostly
>>> consensus against XML (in OpenStack API) on the development list, when
>>> the issue was raised with users, in the end they made up a
>>> sufficiently-good rationale for us to keep it in past versions of the API :)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, and I suspect we'd arrive the same result again.
>>
>> I'd rather hear ideas for things that would make it easier to support
>> both.  The window is open for changes to make that easier.
>>
>> --
>> Russell Bryant
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