I don't think either of you is wrong. I too think that in cases where it's not easy to find a majority, it might make sense to just do what the other projects are doing. Unfortunately for us, Keystone adopts the "name is unique" phylosophy, whereas nova adopts "name is a label".
Is it worth considering renaming the attribute to 'name-label' and let it be non-unique and non-mandatory? Salvatore On 16 July 2012 22:27, Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com> wrote: > Hi Gary, this is an example of when I wish openstack APIs had a > "style-guide" to try to ensure some consistency across projects. > > For those new to the conversation, the original topic of discussion is > whether "names" for API objects should be forced to be unique (presumably > within a tenant?) or allowed to be duplicated. The general feeling from > the meeting was that since UUIDs are unique, the API itself would not > enforce name uniqueness. That also led to the point that names should then > be optional, since they are really for informational/display purposes only. > > > Personally, I tend to think that "description" tends to imply a sentence > "private network for tenant1", rather than a simple name "tenant1-net". > There's also the fact that other openstack services like nova and glance > use the term "name" with the similar (I believe) model that a name need not > be unique. > > Would be curious to hear what others think. The only thing I'm quite sure > about is that there would be value in creating some notion of "openstack > API consistency best practices" to give a more cohesive feel to APIs across > different projects in the openstack family. > > Dan > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Gary Kotton <gkot...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> If the name is intended to be a description then how about the idea of >> calling the field "description" instead. This is far more descriptive and >> does not lend the user to think that this should be unique. >> Thanks >> Gary >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> More help : >> https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Wendlandt > Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com > twitter: danwendlandt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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