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2017-01-25 0:27 GMT+08:00 Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com>:

> On 1/24/2017 9:18 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>
>>
>> First, thanks to Kevin and Alex for finding this issue and explaining it
>> in detail so we can understand the scope.
>>
>> This is a nasty unfortunate issue which I really wish we could just fix
>> without a microversion bump but we have microversions for a reason,
>> which is to fix issues in the API. In thinking about if this were the
>> legacy 2.0 API, we always had a rule that you couldn't fix bugs in the
>> API if they changed the behavior, no matter how annoying.
>>
>> So let's fix this with a microversion. I don't think we need to hold it
>> to the feature freeze deadline as it's a microversion only for a bug
>> fix, it's not a new feature. So that's a compromise at least and gives
>> us some time to get this done correctly and still have it fixed in
>> Ocata. We'll also want to document this in the api-ref and REST API
>> version history in whatever way makes it clear about the limitations
>> between microversions.
>>
>> As for testing, I think using a mix of test inheritance and using
>> 2.latest is probably a good step to take. I know we've had a mix of that
>> in different places in the functional API samples tests, but there was
>> never a clear rule about what do to with testing microversions and if
>> you should use inheritance to build on existing tests.
>>
>>
> One other thing: we're going to need to also fix this in
> python-novaclient, which we might want to do first, or work concurrently,
> since that's going to give us the client side perspective on how gross it
> will be to deal with this issue.


+1, thanks for this good point!


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> Matt Riedemann
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