Open Stack

On 11/13/2012 04:19 AM, Zane Bitter wrote:
>
> Currently:
>   /{tenant_id}/stacks/{name}
> redirects to:
>   /{tenant_id}/stacks/{name}/{uuid}
>
> One option would be to change it so that e.g.
> /tenants/{tenant_id}/stacks/{name}
> redirects to:
> /stacks/{uuid}
>
> That does solve one problem - namely that it's nicer to work with 
> stacks by name, but client libraries in OpenStack have traditionally 
> referenced such things only by ID so it's good to be able to find the 
> stack in a single step starting with only the UUID.
>
> However it would mean that "GET /stacks" would either need a query 
> parameter to specify the tenant id or it would have to redirect to 
> "/tenants/{tenant_id}/stacks". As noted below, it also means we'd miss 
> out on being able to look up the endpoint complete with tenant_id from 
> the Keystone service catalog.
>
> Thoughts? 

Jay makes a good point though. This option is now growing on me.

/stacks?tenant_id={tenant_id}
/stacks/{uuid}
/stacks/{name}?tenant_id={tenant_id}

And yes, clients will have to figure out their tenant_id. Although for 
heat they could probably safely add it as a parameter to every request.
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