[openstack-dev] [api] REST limitations and GraghQL inception?

Flint WALRUS gael.therond at gmail.com
Thu May 3 17:56:20 UTC 2018


Exactly !
Le jeu. 3 mai 2018 à 19:55, Flint WALRUS <gael.therond at gmail.com> a écrit :

> It seems to be a fair way to do it. I do second the Neutron API as a good
> candidate.
>
> I’ll be happy to give a hand.
>
> @jay I’ve already sum my points upper, but I could definitely have better
> exemples if needed.
>
> I’m operating and dealing with a large (really) Openstack platform and
> GraphQL would have tremendous performances impacts for sure. But you’re
> right proof have to be made.
> Le jeu. 3 mai 2018 à 18:57, Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> a écrit :
>
>> On May 2, 2018, at 2:40 AM, Gilles Dubreuil <gdubreui at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> • We should get a common consensus before all projects start to
>> implement it.
>> >
>> > This is going to be raised during the API SIG weekly meeting later this
>> week.
>> > API developers (at least one) from every project are strongly welcomed
>> to participate.
>> > I suppose it makes sense for the API SIG to be the place to discuss it,
>> at least initially.
>>
>> It was indeed discussed, and we think that it would be a worthwhile
>> experiment. But it would be a difficult, if not impossible, proposal to
>> have adopted OpenStack-wide without some data to back it up. So what we
>> thought would be a good starting point would be to have a group of
>> individuals interested in GraphQL form an informal team and proceed to wrap
>> one OpenStack API as a proof-of-concept. Monty Taylor suggested Neutron as
>> an excellent candidate, as its API exposes things at an individual table
>> level, requiring the client to join that information to get the answers
>> they need.
>>
>> Once that is done, we could examine the results, and use them as the
>> basis for proceeding with something more comprehensive. Does that sound
>> like a good approach to (all of) you?
>>
>> -- Ed Leafe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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