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[Brian Waldon <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Above all, I want to keep the API spec as clean as possible. We would have to design a way to communicate what method we use if we make it configurable by the backend like you suggest. That seems like its moving away from cleanliness rather than toward. 

I'm more interested in first hearing if PATCH is a viable option. Rails is going to use it, so I feel like people are going to have to get on board eventually.

Brian


On May 23, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:

> Is there anyway u can just make it a configuration option?
> 
> v2imagemethod = ‘PUT’...
> 
> On 5/23/12 1:22 PM, "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm considering using PATCH rather than PUT for image updates in the v2 Image API, but I wanted to make sure there weren't any major blockers that I might be missing. As far as I can tell, the python libraries we use in Glance support it (httplib2, requests). However, I discovered that Squid doesn't document official support of the method: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidLogs. I wanted to ask if there are any other key infrastructure pieces that foolishly hard-code request methods like this. It might make us want to rethink using PATCH at all.
> 
> Brian
>