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On 3/30/2017 12:22 AM, Alex Xu wrote:
> Currently I'm working on removing the stevedore [0], and move the URL
> routes mapping into a plain list [1].
>
> But actually, the original URL mappings which Nova created [2] are more
> than that list.
> Due to the interface 'routes.Mapper.resources' create a set routes
> conforming to the Atom publish protocol.[3]
>
> So there are some URL mapping we never documented at somewhere (at least
> I don't know):
>
> POST /servers.:(format)
> GET /servers/detail.:(format)
> ....
> GET /servers/new.:(format)  (the API doesn't work, return 404)
> GET /servers/new (the API doesn't work, return 404)
> GET /servers/:(id)/edit.:(format) (the API doesn't work, return 404)
> ....
>
> I plan to remove the support for those URL mappings in the patch [1],
> and it will fix the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1615475.
>
> But I want to send this email to ensure we are ok to remove those URL
> mappings.
>
> Thanks
> Alex
>
> [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445864/
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/445864/7/nova/api/openstack/compute/routes.py@119
> [2] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/api/openstack/__init__.py#L174
> [3] https://routes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/restful.html
>
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I'm fine with removing those undocumented, frankly unknown to most of 
us, URL mappings. We don't support them, document them, or test them. 
They are basically an accident as far as I know, so +1 for removal.

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Thanks,

Matt