On 11/25/2014 03:28 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > On 24/11/14 08:56 -0500, Sean Dague wrote: >> Having XML payloads was never a universal part of OpenStack services. >> During the Icehouse release the TC declared that being an OpenStack >> service requires having a JSON REST API. Projects could do what they >> wanted beyond that. Lots of them deprecated and have been removing the >> XML cruft since then. >> >> Tempest is a tool to test the OpenStack API. OpenStack hasn't had an XML >> API for a long time. >> >> Given that current branchless Tempest only supports as far back as >> Icehouse anyway, after these changes were made, I'd like to propose that >> all the XML code in Tempest should be removed. If a project wants to >> support something else beyond a JSON API that's on that project to test >> and document on their own. >> >> We've definitively blocked adding new XML tests in Tempest anyway, but >> getting rid of the XML debt in the project will simplify it quite a bit, >> make it easier for contributors to join in, and seems consistent with >> the direction of OpenStack as a whole. > > Lets get rid of it, once and for all. > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
This was discussed last night in the cross project meeting, and there was a pretty resounding *do it* - http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2014/project.2014-11-25-21.01.log.html The patch stream to accomplish it is here - https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/tempest+branch:master+topic:rmxml,n,z +1s for non core members that are in favor, especially potentially affected PTLs, appreciated. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net
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