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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:32 PM, George Reese <george.reese@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why aren't the integration tests both XML and JSON?

The simple answer is that no one has taken the time to write them. Our devstack exercises use the python client bindings. Tempest has json clients but no xml clients[1]. I think this demonstrates that there just isn't a huge desire for xml. Users that I have chatted with just seem to care that the api works and that they they have good bindings.

I am definitely willing to be proven wrong on this point, but I'm secretly hoping everyone agrees with me. It is a lot of work to maintain three APIs (we are still maintaining EC2 as well) and keep them all functioning well, so if people are happy without OpenStack XML I would be perfectly content to deprecate it.

Vish

[1] https://github.com/openstack/tempest/tree/master/tempest/services/nova/xml