17 Apr
2009
17 Apr
'09
12:35 p.m.
e.g. stop (GRACEFUL) or stop(KILL) ... maybe just "stop" for the most sensible approach for the given infrastructure (ranging from pinging a daemon to ask for a graceful shutdown to yanking the cord for physical servers), and "stop/graceful" etc. for more nuanced versions. ... A client can always map from a complex API to a simple (G)UI. It should not be problem to have a single STOP button, and when pressing that to perform a couple of API calls with more diverse semantics?
+1 to this follow up. I think we should have API calls which are clear in their meaning and distinguish the different cases (e.g. stop graceful vs. kill) rather than a single stop call with vendor-specific behaviour. Richard.