On Feb 2, 2018, at 2:11 AM, Duncan Thomas <duncan.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I guess my question here is why is being RESTful good? Sure it's (very, > very loosely) a standard, but what are the actual advantages? Standards come > and go, what we want most of all is a good quality, easy to use API.
REST is HTTP. I don’t think that that is a “loose” standard by any measure. > I'm not saying that going RESTful is wrong, but I don't see much discussion > about what the advantages are, only about how close we are to implementing it. Here’s a quick summary of the advantages, courtesy of SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5320003/why-we-should-use-rest REST is the standard for OpenStack APIs. Our job in the API-SIG is to help all projects develop their APIs to be as consistent as possible without using a top-down, heavy-handed approach. That’s why we included a suggestion for how to make your RPC-ish API consistent with other projects that also use an RPC-like approach to parts of their API. -- Ed Leafe __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
