On 03/20/2015 02:51 PM, Carl Baldwin wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote:
What about this instead?

POST /v2.0/subnets

{
   'network_id': 'meh',
   'gateway_ip_template': '*.*.*.1'
   'prefix_len': 24,
   'pool_id': 'some_pool'
}

At least that way it's clear the gateway attribute is not an IP, but a
template/string instead?

I thought about doing *s but in the world of Classless Inter-Domain
Routing where not all networks are /24, /16, or /8 it seemed a bit
imprecise.  But, maybe that doesn't matter.

Understood.

I think the more important difference with your proposal here is that
it is passed as a new attribute called 'gateway_ip_template'.  I don't
think that attribute would ever be sent back to the user.  Is it ok to
have write-only attributes?  Is everyone comfortable with that?

I don't see anything wrong with attributes that are only in the request. I mean, we have attributes that are only in the response (things like status, for example).

Looking at the EC2 API, they support "write-only attributes" as well, for just this purpose:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_RunInstances.html

The MaxCount and MinCount attributes are not in the response but are in the request. Same thing for Nova's POST /servers REST API (min_count, max_count).

Best,
-jay

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