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Re: describing APIs for OpenStack consumers

 

Is the WADL for Nova and or its extensions available somewhere to look at?

Thanks,
Rupak Ganguly
Ph: 678-648-7434


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Bryan Taylor <btaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/27/2011 05:52 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
>> Generating WADL (or anything else) from code is fine, as long as we have
>> the processes / tools (e.g., CI) in place to assure that a trivial code
>> change doesn't make a backwards-incompatible change in what we expose to
>> clients.
>>
> You bring up a really good point here.
>
>> Do we?
>>
>
> I doubt it. I vaguely recall there were WSDL backwards compatibility
> checkers, which implies there must be XSD backwards compatibility checkers.
>  I don't know of anything that can do this for WADL. And without some
> mechanism to define a JSON format in a machine readable way, I'm not even
> sure how you could possibly accomplish this for JSON.
>
>
>  (really, we should have these in place regardless of how things are
>> generated)
>>
> We should.
>
>
>
>
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