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Hi Aline,<br>
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No need to mention explicitly, but this is very useful in case where
end users are exploiting functionality via REST API directly and not
UI way.<br>
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Regards<br>
Chandra<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/06/2015 01:52 PM, Chandra
Shehkhar Reddy Potula wrote:<br>
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Hi Aline,<br>
<br>
Versioning helps you iterate faster and prevents invalid requests
from hitting updated endpoints. It also helps smooth transitions
over any major API version as you can continue to offer old API
versions for a period of time. Definitely supporting the old
version of API period of time while offering new functionality
with newer version always give benefits and extra time for end
user to adjust to new one.<br>
<br>
I see lot of products in the market are adapting versioning (see
below link)<br>
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href="http://www.lexicalscope.com/blog/2012/03/12/how-are-rest-apis-versioned/">http://www.lexicalscope.com/blog/2012/03/12/how-are-rest-apis-versioned/</a><br>
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I do understand the concern of maintaining the version of the API
endpoints , below are some of the links from Openstack, which
talks about it.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html">http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/VersionDiscovery">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/VersionDiscovery</a><br>
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Hope it make senses to you.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Chandra<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/06/2015 12:04 AM, Aline Manera
wrote:<br>
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Hi Chandra,<br>
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I don't see any benefit in adding the version in the URL.
Instead of that, it scares me on how we will maintain it.<br>
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Once we move to wok and Kimchi as plugin, all the APIs will be
automatically updated so everything will be in the same page.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Aline Manera<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/07/2015 09:47, Chandra Sr
Potula wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">Hi Kimchi/Ginger
Devel-Team,</font><br>
<br>
<font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">Thank you for creating
WOK branch to separate the kimchi plugin from the base
frame work. It is a great idea.</font><br>
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<font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">Along with the separation
of kimchi plugin looks like there is a transformation of
REST API URIs as well. So thinking in those lines will it
be good idea even to introduce version to the REST API
URIs ?</font><br>
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<font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">Let me take one REST API
URI to convey clear on what I am talking about.</font><br>
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<font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">To retrieve the host
repository information, current URI is:
"/plugins/kimchi/host/repositories".</font><br>
<br>
<font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2"><b>Recommendation</b></font><font
face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">:</font><br>
<font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">New host repository URI
can look like : </font><font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2"><b>"</b></font><font
face="DejaVu Serif" size="2"><b>/plugins/kimchi/v<version>/host/repositories"
, </b></font><font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">so that
it is easy to maintain REST API future enhancements at the
same time do not brake some body who is using the existing
URI.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">Note* Adding version in
the URI above is just an example and we could place the
version in the URI best possible way.</font><br>
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<p><font face="DejaVu Serif" size="2">Thanks and Regards,</font><br>
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