Re: [EXTERNAL] Proposal to deprecate cachegroup parameters and remove from TO API v4

[Rawlin Peters <ra...@apache.org>]

This PR has been opened: https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/pull/5993

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 11:04 AM ocket 8888 <oc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> That sounds like a good idea
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> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 09:44 Robert O Butts <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
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> > > I hope if it is true that whoever it is sees this.
> >
> > Should we ask users@trafficcontrol.apache.org just to be sure?
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> >
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 9:08 AM ocket 8888 <oc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > +1, but I was considering proposing this for API v2 which dropped a fair
> > > few endpoints itself, and someone told me that there were people out
> > there
> > > using this for something. Maybe that's no longer true, or maybe it wasn't
> > > even actually true at the time, but I hope if it is true that whoever it
> > is
> > > sees this.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 21:51 Rawlin Peters <ra...@apache.org> wrote:
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> > > > Hey folks,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to propose we deprecate "cachegroup parameters" in the TO API
> > > > and remove their routes from TO API v4.
> > > >
> > > > You might be thinking: "what are cachegroup parameters?" Well, if you
> > > > didn't already know, you can currently assign parameters to
> > > > cachegroups. However, they don't have any semantic meaning within ATC
> > > > itself and can only possibly have meaning to external systems and/or
> > > > internal, proprietary plugins. We were using them for that purpose
> > > > once, but we have since removed all of our cachegroup parameters. I
> > > > think it's pretty unlikely that the community at large is using this
> > > > feature, which is why I'm proposing we deprecate it in order to
> > > > continue the effort of simplifying the data model and the TO API.
> > > >
> > > > Let me know if this feature is critical to anyone; otherwise, I will
> > > > go ahead and get it removed from TO API v4 (it will still be available
> > > > in v1-3 until those are removed).
> > > >
> > > > - Rawlin
> > > >
> > >
> >