On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 21:54 +1000, Justin Clift wrote: > On 02/06/2011, at 6:27 PM, David Lutterkort wrote: > <snip> > > In practical terms, we already have a feature 'user_name' for instances > > that indicates that the clouds supports user-supplied names. We could > > just enhance the XML to include the maximum size, e.g. > > > > <api driver="..." version="..."> > > <link href="http://localhost:3001/api/instances"; > > rel="instances"> > > <feature name="user_name"> > > <param name="name"> > > <constraint name="max_length" > > value="20"/> > > <constraint name="pattern" > > value="[a-zA-Z0-9]+"/> > > </param> > > </feature> > > </link> > > </api> > > > > (The pattern stuff as an example of something we don't need right now, > > but might want to add at some point) > > For the "pattern" example, is the general idea to communicate > the characters allowed in the name?
Yes, that's what I meant by that - and really, I only included that to (a) confuse everybody and (b) sound out what the constraint biz would look like with multiple constraints. David
