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Steven,

Thank you for continuing to pursue this.  Adding this functionality and 
having it consistent will be a good thing.

The plan for Cinder looks good to me and is consistent with Mike and 
Duncan's input.

I look forward to seeing patches for Cinder.

Jay

On 01/06/2015 10:03 AM, Steven Kaufer wrote:
>
> This is a follow up thread to [1]
>
> In order to have consistency across clients, I am proposing that the 
> client side sorting has the following syntax: --sort <key>[:<direction>]
>
> Where the --sort parameter is comma-separated and is used to specify 
> one or more sort keys and directions. The direction defaults to 'desc' 
> for each sort key and the user can supply 'asc' to override.
>
> For example:
>
>   nova list --sort display_name
>   nova list --sort display_name,vm_state
>   nova list --sort display_name:asc,vm_state:asc
>
> If approved, then the following changes are needed for glance and 
> cinder (note that nova already uses this syntax):
>
>   Cinder: Deprecate --sort_key and --sort_dir and add support for --sort
>   Glance: Modify [2] to this new syntax
>
> I have not verified how all other projects handle sorting, there may 
> be other projects that would also need to be changed.
>
> Thoughts?  Objections?
>
> Also, if there is a more formal way to propose/review this standard 
> please let me know.
>
> [1] 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org/msg42854.html
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/120777/
>
> Thanks,
> Steven Kaufer
>
>
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