[Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity

Kiall Mac Innes kiall at managedit.ie
Fri Jun 8 22:14:31 UTC 2012


What's the argument for allowing both, for example, "admin", "Admin" and
"admIn" roles?

This seems like one place where case insensitive makes the most sense.

Thanks,
Kiall

Sent from my phone.
On Jun 8, 2012 11:01 p.m., "Joseph Suh" <jsuh at isi.edu> wrote:

> I'd vote case-sensitive.
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> Subject: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity
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> tl;dr - Should we compare roles as case-sensitive or case-insensitive? I
> vote case-sensitive.
>
> This bug was recently filed in Glance:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1010519 . It points out that Nova
> and Keystone are both case-insensitive when it comes to role comparison,
> yet Glance *is* case sensitive. I'm in favor of moving other projects to a
> case-sensitive approach for two main reasons:
>
>
> 1) If a role is a string, and comparing strings is inherently
> case-sensitive, then role comparison would logically be case-sensitive
> 2) I get to do less work
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> Thoughts?
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> Brian Waldon
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