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On 02/21/2016 01:41 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 02/21/2016 12:50 PM, Chris Dent wrote:
>>
>> In a recent api-wg meeting I set forth the idea that it is both a
>> bad idea to add lots of different headers and to add headers which
>> have meaning in the name of the header (rather than just the value).
>> This proved to a bit confusing, so I was asked to write it up. I
>> did:
>>
>>      https://review.openstack.org/#/c/280381/
>>
>> When I did, the best example for how _not_ to do things is the way in
>> which we are currently doing microversion headers.
>>
>> So two questions:
>>
>> * Is my position on header non proliferation right?
> 
> Yes, I believe so.
> 
>> * Is it so right that we should consider doing microversions
>>    differently?
> 
> Ship has sailed on a number of things, including this. I *do* think it
> would be great to just use OpenStack-API-Version: $SERVICE_TYPE X.Y,
> however we'll need to add another microversion to support that of
> course. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

Actually, the headers can't be fully fixed in a microversion, because
they are deep in the negotiation. We're stuck maintaining the old
headers pretty much forever.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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