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"Steve Martinelli" <stevemar at ca.ibm.com> wrote on 04/06/2016 06:45:42 AM:

> From: "Steve Martinelli" <stevemar at ca.ibm.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List \(not for usage questions\)" 
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 04/06/2016 06:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Proposal to remove `nova 
> image-*` commands from novaclient
> 
> +1000. Totally in favor of this, if anything it seems overdue, I'm a 
> bit surprised that they aren't already deprecated. Two alternatives 
> exist for the CLI (osc and glanceclient), and two alternatives exist 
> for python API bindings (SDK and glanceclient).
> 
> This should follow the same case with the nova volume-* commands, 
> deprecate for 2 releases [1] and then remove [2]. The deprecation 
> message can point users to OSC and glanceclient.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/commit/
> 23f13437dd64496fcbc138bbaa9b0ac615a3cf23
> [2] https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/commit/
> a42570268915f42405ed0b0a67c25686b5db22ce
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Martinelli
> OpenStack Keystone Project Team Lead

+1 for deprecation and removal

To be honest, when I started with Nova during Kilo, I didn't get
why we have those passthrough APIs. They looked like convenience APIs.
A short history lesson, why they got introduced, would be cool. I only
found commit [1] which looks like they were there from the beginning.

References:
[1] 
https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/commit/7304ed80df265b3b11a0018a826ce2e38c052572#diff-56f10b3a40a197d5691da75c2b847d31R33

Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)

> [image removed] Matt Riedemann ---2016/04/05 03:49:05 PM---As we 
> discuss the glance v2 spec for nova, questions are coming up around 
> what to do about the nova
> 
> From: Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 2016/04/05 03:49 PM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Proposal to remove `nova 
> image-*` commands from novaclient
> 
> 
> 
> As we discuss the glance v2 spec for nova, questions are coming up 
> around what to do about the nova images API which is a proxy for glance 
v1.
> 
> I don't want to add glance v2 support to the nova API since that's just 
> more proxy gorp.
> 
> I don't think we can just make the nova images API fail if we're using 
> glance v2 in the backend, but we'll need some translation later for:
> 
> user->nova-images->glance.v2->glance.v1(ish)->user
> 
> But we definitely want people to stop using the nova images API.
> 
> I think we can start by deprecating the nova images-* commands in 
> python-novaclient, and probably the python API bindings in novaclient 
too.
> 
> People should be using python-glanceclient or python-openstackclient for 

> the CLI, and python-glanceclient or some SDK for the python API 
bindings.
> 
> We recently removed the deprecated nova volume-* stuff from novaclient, 
> this would be the same idea.
> 
> Does anyone have an issue with this?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Riedemann
> 
> 
> 
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