On Mar 5, 2011, at 1:33 AM, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 11:47 +0100, Michal Fojtik wrote: >> What about 'optional' parameters? So we will advertise them somewhere >> (except docs) ? > > I don't think it will help clients at all - if we advertise that > create_image takes an optional 'name' param, what will clients do with > this ? If they want to take advantage of it, they need to know that > there is a 'name' param ahead of time, and have a way to populate it > (e.g., by asking a user)
Yeah, you're completely right. I just realized that for this case we have OPTIONS /instances/create call, where client can see all parameters for this action. So advertising them in XML is completely redundant. -- Michal Michal Fojtik Software Engineer, Deltacloud API project http://www.deltacloud.org [email protected]
