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Hi,
I don't see the difference between Swift API and the "well-specified and
public Object Storage API v1". If the documentation is not properly
documenting the Swift API then we should fix the doc maybe ?

Jordan

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Radoslaw Zarzynski <rzarzynski at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> As we know Tempest provides many great tests for verification of
> conformance with OpenStack interfaces - the tempest/api directory is
> full of such useful stuff. However, regarding the #1422728 ticket [1]
> (dependency on private HTTP header of Swift), I think we all need to
> answer for one single but fundamental question: which interfaces we
> truly want to test? I see two options:
>
> 1) implementation-specific private interfaces (like the Swift interface),
> 2) well-specified and public OpenStack APIs (eg. the Object Storage
> API v1 [2]).
>
> I think that Tempest should not relay on any behaviour not specified
> in public API (Object Storage API v1 in this case). Test for Swift-
> specific features/extensions is better be shipped along with Swift
> and actually it already has pretty good internal test coverage.
>
> As I already wrote in similar thread regarding Horizon, from my
> perspective, the OpenStack is much more than yet another IaaS/PaaS
> implementation or a bunch of currently developed components. I think
> its main goal is to specify a universal set of APIs covering all
> functional areas relevant for cloud computing, and to place that set
> of APIs in front as many implementations as possible. Having an
> open source reference implementation of a particular API is required
> to prove its viability, but is secondary to having an open and
> documented API. I am sure the same idea of interoperability should
> stand behind Tempest - the OpenStack's Test Suite.
>
> Regards,
> Radoslaw Zarzynski
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/tempest/+bug/1422728
> [2] http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-objectstorage-v1.html
>
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