Re: [Engine-devel] Fwd: Problem in REST API handling/displaying of logical networks

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On Behalf Of Livnat Peer Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 1:39 PM To: Mike Kolesnik Cc: engine-devel; Simon Grinberg Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Fwd: Problem in REST API handling/displaying

logical networks On 05/07/12 13:23, Mike Kolesnik wrote: >> On 07/05/2012 12:19 PM, Livnat Peer wrote: >>>> I'll give you one scenario and I'm sure there are lot more: >>>>> delete all unused networks .... >>>>> >>> not strong enough use case in my opinion >> >> i do see sense in this, and based on my experience of closing ~5 bugs >> on this for SD and explaining like >> ~10 times on ML to users why /api/storagedomains/xxx doesn't have >> <status>, I'm sure it should be done this way as it creates clear >> differentiation between root-resource and cluster-resource (shared) >> status. >> >>> to add this yet another confusing property. >> >> you not adding another property, you fix existent (which was >> incorrectly used/implemented). >> >>> >>> BTW - If a requirement will get from the field to add properties we >>> can do them later why add something we think is not needed. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Michael Pasternak >> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D >> > > I think we got a little bit off the topic here, so if you don't mind I

like to see if everyone agrees on this: > > We have at the api/networks collection these properties and their

values: > status - OPERATIONAL, NON_OPERATIONAL > display - true, false > > We (as far as I understood) agreed that these fields causea problem in

context since they can be different for a given network, and current representation will return the network element multiple times with only difference in either one of these fields. > Also I understood we agreed that this is bad behaviour (even a bug)

don't want to support this anymore. > > This gives 2 choices IMHO: > 1. Fix the behaviour but keep the fields with some default values. > 2. Fix the behaviour and remove these field as well, which isn't

breaking an API since the behaviour was broken to begin with. > So a summary of the thread so far: Simon, Miki Ori and me voted +1 for option #2 Michael wants to change the value of the status field to attach/detach Anyone else wants to vote in on this?

> Please comment what option seems valid (I though we were going to the direction of fix #2). > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel