[openstack-dev] [Nova][API] Need naming suggestions for "capabilities"

Jim Meyer jim at geekdaily.org
Mon Aug 15 16:37:36 UTC 2016


A fast reply where others will expand further (I hope):

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> 
>> My vote is the following:
>> 
>> GET /capabilities <-- returns a set of *actions* or *abilities* that the 
>> user is capable of performing
> 
> Does this relate in any way to how DefCore already uses "capabilities”?

Only a bit, and not in a way I’d be deeply concerned about.

The Interoperability Working Group (née DefCore) points to a specific Tempest test which asserts that a service has a “capability” and determines if that capability is “core,” thus required to be provided in this way in order to claim that the underlying cloud is an OpenStack cloud.

> 
>> 
>> GET /traits <-- returns a set of *adjectives* or *attributes* that may 
>> describe a provider of some resource

+1 for where this is going.

—j

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