<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/11/14 23:35, Julian Edwards wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:3915090.1y1MsK2ehN@stinkpad" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I think it's fine.</pre> </blockquote> Obviously you do, since you suggested it. Obviously I don't, since I replied in the negative ;) So, please don't. Make the queue, as requested. <blockquote cite="mid:3915090.1y1MsK2ehN@stinkpad" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> We have other API calls that subsequently let you find out what the state is, and if *that* doesn't work then your node is broken! </pre> </blockquote> Quoting from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/">http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/</a> : " <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> The client of a component is not burdened with handling its failures." In other words, it's good practice to design systems that detect and fix their own problems, rather than expecting a client to verify that everything it asked you to do actually worked. Let's do that. Mark<span style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; font-size: 17.3333339691162px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23.8000011444092px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;"> </body> </html>