[openstack-dev] [Cinder] Get volumes REST API with filters and limit

Steven Kaufer kaufer at us.ibm.com
Tue Mar 4 17:34:19 UTC 2014


Duncan Thomas <duncan.thomas at gmail.com> wrote on 03/04/2014 07:53:49 AM:

> From: Duncan Thomas <duncan.thomas at gmail.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
> Date: 03/04/2014 08:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Cinder] Get volumes REST API with
> filters and limit
>
> Definitely file a bug... a script to reproduce would be fantastic.
> Needs to be fixed... I don't think you need a blueprint if the fix is
> simple, but if you're making deep changes then a blueprint always
> helps.#

Bug created: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1287813

>
> Thanks for pointing this out
>
> On 28 February 2014 20:52, Steven Kaufer <kaufer at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > I am investigating some pagination enhancements in nova and cinder(see
nova
> > blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/nova-pagination).
> >
> > In cinder, it appears that all filtering is done after the volumes are
> > retrieved from the database (see the API.get_all function in
> > https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/volume/api.py).
> > Therefore, the usage combination of filters and limit will only work if
all
> > volumes matching the filters are in the page of data being retrieved
from
> > the database.
> >
> > For example, assume that all of the volumes with a name of "foo" would
be
> > retrieved from the database starting at index 100 and that you query
for all
> > volumes with a name of "foo" while specifying a limit of 50.  In this
case,
> > the query would yield 0 results since the filter did not match any of
the
> > first 50 entries retrieved from the database.
> >
> > Is this a known problem?
> > Is this considered a bug?
> > How should this get resolved?  As a blueprint for juno?
> >
> > I am new to the community and am trying to determine how this should be
> > addressed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steven Kaufer
> >
> >
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>
>
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Thanks,

Steven Kaufer
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