How to specify APIVersion when using ARM Generic Resource operations

[dave-read]

In prior version of the SDK (v7.0.0-beta), the Management Client (azure-sdk-for-go/arm/resources/resources/client.go) included an APIVersion property that allowed use of Generic Resource operations like CreateOrUpdate with preview APIs (e.g. Azure PostgresSQL requires 2017-04-30-preview)

type ManagementClient struct {
	autorest.Client
	BaseURI        string
	APIVersion     string
	SubscriptionID string
}

When updating to the latest releases (v10.x.x-beta) that APIVersion property is no longer available and the API version appears to be fixed at 2016-09-01. Was that change by design? If so, is there any other way to specify an APIVersion when using the SDK with Generic Resource operations (e.g. GroupClient CreateOrUpdate)?

[marstr]

Howdy @dave-read,

As you suspected, this change was done by design. Here are a few threads that explain why this happened, and which problems we're trying to solve:

• Versioning Proposal: Customer Feedback Requested #517
• Support All API Versions #631
• Removing APIVersion from client. autorest#2080

Also, checkout my experimental branch, were I've started regenerating code to conform to a pattern which supports all API Versions here:
Azure/azure-sdk-for-go experimental/allAPIVersions

[marstr]

Feel free to ask for this to be re-opened if you don't find the answers you're looking for in those threads!