Open Stack

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell <
kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com> wrote:

> When we look at consistency, we look at everything else in OpenStack.
> From the standpoint of the nova API (with which I am the most familiar),
> I am not aware of any property that is ever omitted from any payload
> without versioning coming in to the picture, even if its value is null.
> Thus, I would argue that we should encourage the first situation, where
> all properties are included, even if their value is null.
>

Independent of actual implementations in OpenStack, I prefer always
including null/empty properties here because it is slightly more
self-documenting.  Having spent the morning chasing down attributes for an
API to be named at a later date by looking at server code, we do not help
ourselves or the users of our APIs by omitting this sort of thing.

dt

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Dean Troyer
dtroyer at gmail.com
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