[openstack-dev] [neutron][all] when can we drop XML support in neutronclient? Now?

Akihiro Motoki amotoki at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 07:07:36 UTC 2015


Thanks all.
Let's drop XML support from neutronclient!
Elena already posted a patch to drop it.

Akihiro

2015-12-04 1:48 GMT+09:00 Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com>:
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> On 3 December 2015 at 08:33, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> python-neutronclient still has XML support of Neutron API.
>>> I would like to discuss when we drop XML support in neutronclient.
>>>
>>> Neutron API XML suppoort was marked as deprecated in Icehouse and Juno
>>> and was dropped in Kilo. Juno is now EOL and we have no gate testing
>>> which
>>> requires XML support. This is a minimum requirement.
>>> From this point, we can drop XML support now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Another point is users who are OpenStack clouds using Juno or older
>>> versions
>>> may use the latest python-neutronclient.
>>> XML support in Neutron was deprecated since Icehouse, and if our
>>> deprecation
>>> notice works, XML API is used only in cloud deployed before Icehouse.
>>> In addition, older versions of neutronclient are available from
>>> various distributions and PyPI.
>>> Do we need to continue XML support for users of such cloud?
>>> Note that we no longer have a way to test XML API support is functional.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Akihiro
>>
>>
>> Let’s not pretend anything ungated works in OpenStack world. If we don’t
>> have infra to validate it, we should kill the support for it.
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>
> Kill it already! :)
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>>
>> Ihar
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