[Hawkular-dev] inventory/deprecated not so easy to use

[Lukas Krejci]

Crap, I thought I did redirect even those I haven't deprecated...

Let me look at that and release 0.17.1...

Sorry for the confusion...

On středa 29. června 2016 9:44:42 CEST John Mazzitelli wrote:
> From: http://www.hawkular.org/docs/rest/rest-inventory.html#_api_endpoints
> 
> "The old API has been kept so that clients can gradually move to the new
> API, but the old API has moved from /hawkular/inventory to
> /hawkular/inventory/deprecated. The clients using the old API will have to
> be modified to use the new endpoint but are otherwise unaffected."
> 
> This isn't exactly true. Not ALL the API from <0.17.0.Final is there at
> /deprecated - if I'm using some of the old API I have to modify the code,
> but not all.
> 
> Jay tried using the old agent with the new inventory, and he switched the
> inventory context from "hawkular/inventory" to
> "hawkular/inventory/deprecated" (there is a inventory-context attribute on
> <storage-adapter> in the agent config for just such an emergency - just a
> change to the standalone.xml setting).
> 
> However, it failed because the "/bulk" API isn't available under
> /deprecated. So if anyone has a client that wants to talk to the old
> inventory, they need to know WHICH API was deprecated (feeds/ deprecated,
> bulk/ was not) and ONLY change those calls to use the /deprecated URL (e.g.
> change the code to use /entity/feed, but leaving /bulk alone). Which kinda
> sucks because now you have to pinpoint what calls need to change in the
> code and change code - when it would be much easier to simply be able to
> change a configuration setting and not have to change or recompile/build
> any code - you can just use the old client as is with the config change.
> 
> In other words, if I have an inventory client wants to use the old inventory
> API, it should switch to "/deprecated" URL and expect it all to work as
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Lukas Krejci