[openstack-dev] [glance]A question abount the x-image-meta-property parameter.

Zhi Yan Liu lzy.dev at gmail.com
Sun Jan 26 16:58:40 UTC 2014


One quick question, do you think there is a potential backward-capability breaking issue for end user or ISV if we remove existing standardizing/normalizing logic? I'd like to know the gains/advantages on this "fix".

thanks,
zhiyan

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> On 2014年1月26日, at 23:49, Fei Long Wang <flwang at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Jay, thanks for calling my name correctly :) 
> 
> Wang Hong, feel free to open a bug to track this. And we can get more info/comments when the patch is reviewed. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Thanks & Best regards,
> Fei Long Wang (王飞龙)
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> 
> <graycol.gif>Jay Pipes ---01/26/2014 11:20:40 PM---On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 18:48 +0800, Fei Long Wang wrote: > Hi Wang Hong,
> 
> From:	Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>
> To:	Fei Long Wang/China/IBM at IBMCN, 
> Cc:	"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date:	01/26/2014 11:20 PM
> Subject:	Re: [openstack-dev] [glance]A question abount the x-image-meta-property parameter.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 18:48 +0800, Fei Long Wang wrote:
> > Hi Wang Hong,
> > 
> > Good catch. I think the issue is caused by line 244-246, see
> > https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/glance/common/utils.py#L244 For the case-matter issue, I think it's a bug. But as for the - to _, I would like to listen Jay's opinion since who is the original author. And obviously, it's intentional change.
> 
> Hi Wang Hong adnd Fei Long,
> 
> It's been a long time since I wrote that :) To be honest, I'm not sure
> why -- other than just standardizing/normalizing the input, we did that.
> Perhaps it had something to do with vendor-specific properties that had
> a prefix that used hyphens, but I'm really not sure... perhaps I am
> getting too old :)
> 
> Best,
> -jay
> 
> > Inactive hide details for 王宏 ---01/26/2014 05:14:02 PM---Hi all. If
> > I use the following command to create an image:王宏 ---01/26/2014
> > 05:14:02 PM---Hi all. If I use the following command to create an
> > image:
> > 
> > From: 王宏 <w.wanghong1 at gmail.com>
> > To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org, 
> > Date: 01/26/2014 05:14 PM
> > Subject: [openstack-dev] [glance]A question abount the
> > x-image-meta-property parameter.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > If I use the following command to create an image: 
> > curl -i -H "X-Auth-Token:268c536db05b435bb6e631158744e3f6" -H
> > "x-image-meta-property-IMAGE-TYPE:xxx" -H "x-image-meta-name:test" -X
> > POST http://127.0.0.1:9292/v1/images
> > 
> > I will get the following results:
> > {"image": {"status": "queued", "deleted": false, "container_format":
> > null, "min_ram": 0, "updated_at": "2014-01-26T08:51:54", "owner":
> > "9a38c1cda5344dd288331b988739c834", "min_disk": 0, "is_public": false,
> > "deleted_at": null, "id": "696ab97d-0e6f-46f1-8570-b6db707a748b",
> > "size": 0, "name": "test", "checksum": null, "created_at":
> > "2014-01-26T08:51:54", "disk_format": null, "properties":
> > {"image_type": "xxx"}, "protected": false}}
> > 
> > The capital letters in the property will be converted to lowercase
> > letters and "-" will be converted to "_"("IMAGE-TYPE"=>"image_type").
> > 
> > Is it a bug? Thanks.
> > 
> > Best regards.
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