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Ideally there would need to be a way to replicate errors.openstack.org and
switch the url, for none-internet connected deployments, but TBH sites with
that sort of requirement are used to weird breakages, so not a huge issue
of it can't easily be done

On 3 February 2015 at 00:35, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/29/2015 12:41 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
>
>> Correct. This actually came up at the Nova mid cycle in a side
>> conversation with Ironic and Neutron folks.
>>
>> HTTP error codes are not sufficiently granular to describe what happens
>> when a REST service goes wrong, especially if it goes wrong in a way
>> that would let the client do something other than blindly try the same
>> request, or fail.
>>
>> Having a standard json error payload would be really nice.
>>
>> {
>>       fault: ComputeFeatureUnsupportedOnInstanceType,
>>       messsage: "This compute feature is not supported on this kind of
>> instance type. If you need this feature please use a different instance
>> type. See your cloud provider for options."
>> }
>>
>> That would let us surface more specific errors.
>>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> Standardization here from the API WG would be really great.
>>
>
> What about having a separate HTTP header that indicates the "OpenStack
> Error Code", along with a generated URI for finding more information about
> the error?
>
> Something like:
>
> X-OpenStack-Error-Code: 1234
> X-OpenStack-Error-Help-URI: http://errors.openstack.org/1234
>
> That way is completely backwards compatible (since we wouldn't be changing
> response payloads) and we could handle i18n entirely via the HTTP help
> service running on errors.openstack.org.
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
>
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