[Openstack] OpenStack API Versioning Conventions
Soren Hansen
soren at linux2go.dk
Tue Oct 11 14:40:13 UTC 2011
2011/10/11 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>:
> I think the versioning rules below are fine, but there are some other
> things to think about:
>
> - As others raised, what version (if any) should be in the URIs?
>
> We could put the full version number in the URIs so long as we
> maintain support for the older, compatible versions i.e. the current
> version is 1.5.3 but clients can still use the 1.4.0, 1.5.2 etc. URIs
>
> The only problem I see with that is that it might appear like
> clients connecting to the 1.4.0 URI should expect only the features
> that were available in 1.4.0.
Why is that a problem? That seems entirely reasonable to me. If a
client is written for an old version of the API how would it even know
to look for these new concepts/features?
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