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+1 to drop XML from v3 API

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
> I know we've been here before, but I want to raise this again while there is
> still time left in icehouse.
>
> I would like to propose that the Nova v3 API removes the XML payload
> entirely. It adds complexity to the Nova code, and it requires duplicating
> all our test resources, because we need to do everything onces for JSON and
> once for XML. Even worse, the dual payload strategy that nova employed
> leaked out to a lot of other projects, so they now think maintaining 2
> payloads is a good thing (which I would argue it is not).
>
> As we started talking about reducing tempest concurrency in the gate, I was
> starting to think a lot about what we could shed that would let us keep up a
> high level of testing, but bring our overall time back down. The fact that
> Nova provides an extremely wide testing surface makes this challenging.
>
> I think it would be a much better situation if the Nova API is a single
> payload type. The work on the jsonschema validation is also something where
> I think we could get to a fully discoverable API, which would be huge.
>
> If we never ship v3 API with XML as stable, we can deprecate it entirely,
> and let it die with v2 ( probably a year out ).
>
>         -Sean
>
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