Can we help save OpenStack from propagating terrible apis?

2014-11-02 Thread Adrian Cole
Hi, team (primarily Everett, Jeremy, Zach) jclouds has the blessing and burden of being a warehouse for OpenStack apis. Some of these are highly reused, others, less so. One thing I've watched over years is us slavishly implementing some really bad designs. It is one thing for a enterprise cloud..

Re: [jclouds-labs-openstack] OS Ceilometer API support (#166)

2014-11-02 Thread Adrian Cole
If only we could tell whoever designed this awful api to please stop making messes. OpenStack is full of some of the worst api design malpractice. You need a MapBinder to resolve this.

Re: [jclouds] JCLOUDS-750 Revert customizing FieldNamingStrategy in favor of tighter contract on @SerializedNames. (#596)

2014-11-02 Thread Adrian Cole
I hope we eventually kill this class and similar :)