Open Stack

On 17 January 2014 09:22, Renat Akhmerov <rakhmerov at mirantis.com> wrote:
> Since it’s pretty easy to get lost among all the opinions I’d like to
> clarify/ask a couple of things:
>
> Keeping all the clients physically separate/combining them in to a single
> library. Two things here:
>
> In case of combining them, what exact project are we considering? If this
> list is limited to core projects like nova and keystone what policy could we
> have for other projects to join this list? (Incubation, graduation,
> something else?)
> In terms of granularity and easiness of development I’m for keeping them
> separate but have them use the same boilerplate code, basically we need a
> OpenStack Rest Client Framework which is flexible enough to address all the
> needs in an abstract domain agnostic manner. I would assume that combining
> them would be an additional organizational burden that every stakeholder
> would have to deal with.
>
> Has anyone ever considered an idea of generating a fully functional REST
> client automatically based on an API specification (WADL could be used for
> that)? Not sure how convenient it would be, it really depends on a
> particular implementation, but as an idea it could be at least thought of.
> Sounds a little bit crazy though, I recognize it :).

Launchpadlib which builds on wadllib did *exactly* that. It worked
fairly well with the one caveat that it fell into the ORM trap - just
in time lookups for everything with crippling roundtrips.

-Rob

-- 
Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud