novarc provides link to the specific version of OS API

[Eldar Nugaev]

novarc provides link to the specific version OS API.

But without version of API nova provides xml like this with information about available API and addresses.
I suppose we shouldn't define specific version of api and give user link to url without predefined version.

<versions>
<version id="v1.1" status="CURRENT">
<links>
<link href="http://10.0.0.1:8774/v1.1" rel="self"/>
</links>
</version>
<version id="v1.0" status="DEPRECATED">
<links>
<link href="http://10.0.0.1:8774/v1.0" rel="self"/>
</links>
</version>
</versions>

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

From Devin on the merge prop:
"I don't see the need for this. If a client requires a specific version of an API, then it should manage that itself. I also don't see the need for an additional parameter. Can you explain your use case?"

[Eldar Nugaev (reldan)]

Hi Thierry.

I suppose we can't just drop this bug.
Nova gives response that v1.0 is DEPRECATED.
So I see inconsistency. I need link to information about versions and their status. At this time I have to get link to DEPRECATED (As we can see in nova) version, remova path from the link and change to CURRENT state.

version_objs = [
            {
                "id": "v1.1",
                "status": "CURRENT",
            },
            {
                "id": "v1.0",
                "status": "DEPRECATED",
            },
        ]

[Brian Waldon (bcwaldon)]

In response to the CURRENT/DEPRECATED comment:

v1.0 was set to deprecated earlier in the cactus dev cycle when the expectation was to still have full v1.1 support. I suppose now we should change the status of v1.0 to current and v1.1 to EXPERIMENTAL, or BETA.

[Eldar Nugaev (reldan)]

Absolutely agree with Brain.

But if we have the feature to provide information about versions of API, why we should not provide the link to this information?
Yes, there are no complexity to get link, then delete path, then get information about allowed API's, then chose the needed on.
But I suppose it hack.

[Eldar Nugaev (reldan)]

 Brian sorry for typo :(

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

If you change the NOVA_URL in novarc, it will break the nova cmdline (which relies on a fully defined NOVA_URL)...

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Closing as WontFix since this is probably a bad idea. Feel free to reopen if you want to continue discussion on this.