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[Salvatore Orlando <sorlando@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think either of you is wrong. I too think that in cases where it's
not easy to find a majority, it might make sense to just do what the other
projects are doing.
Unfortunately for us, Keystone adopts the "name is unique" phylosophy,
whereas nova adopts "name is a label".

Is it worth considering renaming the attribute to 'name-label' and let it
be non-unique and non-mandatory?

Salvatore

On 16 July 2012 22:27, Dan Wendlandt <dan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Gary, this is an example of when I wish openstack APIs had a
> "style-guide" to try to ensure some consistency across projects.
>
> For those new to the conversation, the original topic of discussion is
> whether "names" for API objects should be forced to be unique (presumably
> within a tenant?) or allowed to be duplicated.  The general feeling from
> the meeting was that since UUIDs are unique, the API itself would not
> enforce name uniqueness.  That also led to the point that names should then
> be optional, since they are really for informational/display purposes only.
>
>
> Personally, I tend to think that "description" tends to imply a sentence
> "private network for tenant1", rather than a simple name "tenant1-net".
>  There's also the fact that other openstack services like nova and glance
> use the term "name" with the similar (I believe) model that a name need not
> be unique.
>
> Would be curious to hear what others think.  The only thing I'm quite sure
> about is that there would be value in creating some notion of "openstack
> API consistency best practices" to give a more cohesive feel to APIs across
> different projects in the openstack family.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Gary Kotton <gkotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> If the name is intended to be a description then how about the idea of
>> calling the field "description" instead. This is far more descriptive and
>> does not lend the user to think that this should be unique.
>> Thanks
>> Gary
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