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On 8/30/12 5:12 PM, "Gabe Westmaas" <gabe.westmaas at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

>From:  Blake Yeager <blake.yeager at gmail.com>
>Reply-To:  OpenStack List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>Date:  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:53:34 -0500
>To:  OpenStack List <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>Subject:  Re: [openstack-dev] [Glance] Implementing Common Image
>Properties
>
>
>Another dimension to this problem is the need to filter the image lists
>returned from glance based on these attributes.
>I am not fully up to speed on the latest Glance API, but does it include a
>way to filter on base properties?  What about the ability to filter on
>arbitrary key-value pairs (metadata)?
>
>If we can provide the ability to filter on both of those then I don't
>think it matters as much what we specify as a base property and what we
>ask people to implement as a key-value pair.  If on the other hand we are
>only going to provide a way to filter the image lists using base
>properties then I would argue that we have to be much more inclusive about
>what we make base properties.
>
>If there isn't anything in Glance around this right now I know this is
>something that HP is willing to commit resources to.
>
>-Blake
>_______________________________________________
>
>Definitely agree we need to add filtering ability.  However, even if we
>can filter on key-value pairs, I think its still important to be inclusive
>within reason, as I don't want users to have to know which cloud they are
>talking to, and thus change their client code to filter appropriately.
>
>I think this doesn't exist and I'm sure that HP resources would be
>welcomed.

Sorry, filtering on image properties is supported!

>
>Gabe
>
>
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