[Openstack] Versioning for notification messages

Eric Windisch eric at cloudscaling.com
Tue Oct 9 20:12:58 UTC 2012




On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 15:58 PM, David Ripton wrote:

> On 10/09/2012 01:07 PM, Day, Phil wrote:
> 
> > What do people think about adding a version number to the notification
> > systems, so that consumers of notification messages are protected to
> > some extent from changes in the message contents ?
> 

Right now, there is no appropriate or acceptable way to consume notifications. Plainly, while notifications exist, they shouldn't be considered stable or even usable until this exists.

Message formats and versioning should be a consideration in the effort to create a reusable consumption pattern.

Regards,
Eric Windisch







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