Hi all, I noticed that in the nova API we allow to specify body just for the PUT and POST requests [0], for all the other methods, if a body is specified, it gets ignored. I had a look at the RFC 7231 [1] and I noticed that just the TRACE must not have a body, for all the other request a body can be passed and managing or ignoring it depends on the semantic of the request. For that reason my proposal is to allow at WSGI layer to define a body for all the requests but for the TRACE then it is up to the specific controller to ignore or deal with the body in the request. I put a WIP to implement that change [3]. The rationale behind it is double: - Be more in compliance with the RFC - Having more flexibility in our framework. I have a valid (at least for me) use case here [4]: at the moment a volume detach is implemented using a HTTP DELETE, I'd like to add the option for calling from nova, the cinder -force-delete My idea to implement it is to add a parameter in the body of the DELETE call, but at the moment the only valid option is to create a new API using a POST method. What do you think? Regards -- Andrea Rosa [0] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/wsgi.py#L788 [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231 [3] https://review.openstack.org/181918 [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1449221 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20150511/cebec7ee/attachment.html>