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This sounds more like you need to pay off technical debt and clean up your
API.

Michael

On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 10:58:43 AM Nikolay Markov <nmarkov at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I actually tried to use Pecan and even created a couple of PoCs, but
> there due to historical reasons of how our API is organized it will
> take much more time to implement all workarounds we need to issues
> Pecan doesn't solve out of the box, like working with non-RESTful
> URLs, reverse URL lookup, returning custom body in 404 response,
> wrapping errors to JSON automatically, etc.
>
> As far as I see, each OpenStack project implements its own workarounds
> for these issues, but still it requires much less men and hours for us
> to move to Flask-Restful instead of Pecan, because all these problems
> are already solved there.
>
> BTW, I know a lot of pretty big projects using Flask (it's the second
> most popular Web framework after Django in Python Web community), they
> even have their own "hall of fame":
> http://flask.pocoo.org/community/poweredby/ .
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Ryan Brown <rybrown at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 12/02/2014 09:55 AM, Igor Kalnitsky wrote:
> >> Hi, Sebastian,
> >>
> >> Thank you for raising this topic again.
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Personally, I'd like to use Flask instead of Pecan, because first one
> >> is more production-ready tool and I like its design. But I believe
> >> this should be resolved by voting.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Igor
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Sebastian Kalinowski
> >> <skalinowski at mirantis.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> [snip explanation+history]
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Sebastian
> >
> > Given that Pecan is used for other OpenStack projects and has plenty of
> > builtin functionality (REST support, sessions, etc) I'd prefer it for a
> > number of reasons.
> >
> > 1) Wouldn't have to pull in plugins for standard (in Pecan) things
> > 2) Pecan is built for high traffic, where Flask is aimed at much smaller
> > projects
> > 3) Already used by other OpenStack projects, so common patterns can be
> > reused as oslo libs
> >
> > Of course, the Flask community seems larger (though the average flask
> > project seems pretty small).
> >
> > I'm not sure what determines "production readiness", but it seems to me
> > like Fuel developers fall more in Pecan's target audience than in
> Flask's.
> >
> > My $0.02,
> > Ryan
> >
> > --
> > Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.
> >
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>
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> Best regards,
> Nick Markov
>
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