[openstack-dev] [api] Open API 3.0 for OpenStack API

Gilles Dubreuil gdubreui at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 02:24:28 UTC 2018



On 09/10/18 23:58, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2018-10-09 08:52:52 -0400 (-0400), Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> [...]
>> It seems to me that a major goal of openstacksdk is to hide differences
>> between clouds from the user. If the user is meant to use a GraphQL library
>> themselves, we lose this and the user needs to figure it out themselves.
>> Did I understand that correctly?
> This is especially useful where the SDK implements business logic
> for common operations like "if the user requested A and the cloud
> supports features B+C+D then use those to fulfil the request,
> otherwise fall back to using features E+F".
>

The features offered to the user don't have to change, it's just a 
different architecture.

The user doesn't have to deal with a GraphQL library, only the client 
applications (consuming OpenStack APIs).
And there are also UI tools such as GraphiQL which allow to interact 
directly with GraphQL servers.




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