[Openstack] Versioning for notification messages
    Russell Bryant 
    rbryant at redhat.com
       
    Wed Oct 10 10:44:05 UTC 2012
    
    
  
On 10/09/2012 04:12 PM, Eric Windisch wrote:
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> On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 15:58 PM, David Ripton wrote:
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>> On 10/09/2012 01:07 PM, Day, Phil wrote:
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>>> 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 ?
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> 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.
I think that's a bit strong and not accurate.  To be more specific,
there is no stable API *in OpenStack* for consuming notifications.  It's
certainly possible to consume them.  That is the whole point.  The
original use cases were for applications outside of OpenStack.
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Russell Bryant
    
    
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