Open Stack

Having XML payloads was never a universal part of OpenStack services.
During the Icehouse release the TC declared that being an OpenStack
service requires having a JSON REST API. Projects could do what they
wanted beyond that. Lots of them deprecated and have been removing the
XML cruft since then.

Tempest is a tool to test the OpenStack API. OpenStack hasn't had an XML
API for a long time.

Given that current branchless Tempest only supports as far back as
Icehouse anyway, after these changes were made, I'd like to propose that
all the XML code in Tempest should be removed. If a project wants to
support something else beyond a JSON API that's on that project to test
and document on their own.

We've definitively blocked adding new XML tests in Tempest anyway, but
getting rid of the XML debt in the project will simplify it quite a bit,
make it easier for contributors to join in, and seems consistent with
the direction of OpenStack as a whole.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
http://dague.net