[openstack-dev] [openstack-tc] Proposal for API version discovery

Kurt Griffiths kurt.griffiths at rackspace.com
Thu May 2 14:08:14 UTC 2013


> * We add a 'GET /capabilities' which returns a document describing
>    which features this endpoints support - a feature could be optional
>    because it was added in a new version or because not all
>    deployments would be configured with it enabled. This would allow
>    clients to be able to query for features, rather than having a
>    hard-coded understanding of which minor versions support which
>    features.

+1

We are planning on experimenting with the nascent home document standards
for Marconi rather than trying to invent our own:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-json-home-02

http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wilde-home-xml/


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