[openstack-dev] [neutron][osc] Openstack client, Openstack SDK and neutronclient consistency

Sławek Kapłoński slawek at kaplonski.pl
Thu Nov 17 10:55:31 UTC 2016


Hello,

Thx all of You for explanations. So I think that [1] can be closed as
"Won't fix" now. Am I right?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1640767

-- 
Best regards / Pozdrawiam
Sławek Kapłoński
slawek at kaplonski.pl

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Dean Troyer wrote:

> > Excerpts from Sławek Kapłoński's message of 2016-11-16 22:36:41 +0100:
> >> Hello,
> >> So I want to ask all of You how in Your opinion it should be solved.
> >> Currently there is inconsistency between CLI clients and
> >> API/Horizon/Openstack SDK (I checked that it is possible to create
> >> resource without name via SDK).
> 
> There are a number of intentional inconsistencies between OSC and the
> various REST APIs, precisely because many of the the APIs themselves
> are very inconsistent not only between projects but even within each
> project.  When those APIs are directly reflected in the CLI, like
> happens with many of the project-specific CLIs, the users suffer due
> to the inconsistencies.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> > The OpenStackClient team made the decision to always require names
> > for newly created resources. Perhaps Dean or Steve can fill in more
> > of the background, but my understanding is that this is a design
> > decision for the user interface implemented by OSC, and not is not
> > considered a bug.
> 
> Doug is correct here, we (OpenStackClient) made a specific decision in
> the command structure to always use the resource name as the
> positional argument of a create command.  In this case I believe the
> consistency is worth what pain it may cause to invent a name for a new
> policy.
> 
> We have done UX surveys with OSC at the last two summits and the
> number one favorable comment from the users (varying from cloud
> consumers to operators to OpenStack developers) has been regarding how
> much they appreciate the command consistency.  This is our biggest
> feature.
> 
> dt
> 
> -- 
> 
> Dean Troyer
> dtroyer at gmail.com
> 
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