[openstack-dev] [qa] Meaning of 204 from DELETE apis

[David Kranz]

Tempest has a number of tests in various services for deleting objects 
that mostly return 204. Many, but not all, of these tests go on to check 
that the resource was actually deleted but do so in different ways. 
Sometimes they go into a timeout loop waiting for a GET on the object to 
fail. Sometimes they immediately call DELETE again or GET and assert 
that it fails. According to what I can see about the HTTP "spec", 204 
should mean that the object was deleted. So is waiting for something to 
disappear unnecessary? Is immediate assertion wrong? Does this behavior 
vary service to service? We should be as consistent about this as 
possible but I am not sure what the expected behavior of all services 
actually is.

 -David
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