Extra requests

[JeroenVanOort]

If I'm getting this correct, php-opencloud does 3 requests where only one is needed. I will assume we've already got an authenticated object store service.

$service->getContainer('testcontainer')->uploadObject('testfile.txt', 'testcontent');

This first gets me the container, then uploads the object and than gets the object I've just uploaded.

I don't need all this. I want to be able to assume my container exists (and not check for it) and I don't want to be obligated to get the object returned from uploadObject because I know what I've just uploaded.

I know there are situations where one would need this, but I want to have a choice as a developer. Something like this wouldn't cause a breaking change right? The current behavior could co-exist with this.

$service->uploadObject('testfile.txt', 'testcontent', 'testcontainer', false);

Please let me know what you think. I'm willing to put some work in to this.

[jamiehannaford]

@JeroenVanOort Hey Jeroen - this is definitely known about and we've already had an issue filed for servers (#308). We're about to start v2 development in the coming weeks and this is one of the central issues we'll be addressing. I completely agree with you: users should not have to send any HTTP requests except for the piece of logic they expect. The only exception is re-authenticating.

I don't think these types of issues are resolvable in the v1 form of the library - IMO they're the type of thing to be addressed by a fundamental refactoring (and major semver shift) where we aren't constrained by backwards compatibility. If you'd like to be involved in the jump to v2, that'd be awesome. We've started an initial stage of planning, so maybe I could translate these requirements into Github issues for people to assign to themselves. How does that sound?

[JeroenVanOort]

Very good. I'll contribute where I can :-)

[rbalik]

Not sure how v2 dev is going but I just want to chime in here about this also being a problem for cloud queues. Posting a new messages takes a while, I think partly because after creating the message it does a GET to view the last 10 messages. Would be great if this extra request was optional.