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On 11/03/2015 05:45 AM, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03 2015, Jay Pipes wrote:
> 
>> My suggestion was to add a new POST /servers/search URI resource that can take
>> a request body containing large numbers of filter arguments, encoded in a JSON
>> object.
>>
>> API working group, what thoughts do you have about this? Please add your
>> comments to the Gerrit spec patch if you have time.
> 
> FWIW, we already have an extensive support for that in both Ceilometer
> and Gnocchi. It looks like a small JSON query DSL that we're able to
> "compile" down to SQL Alchemy filters.
> 
> A few examples are:
>   http://docs.openstack.org/developer/gnocchi/rest.html#searching-for-resources
> 
> I've planed for a long time to move this code to a library, so if Nova's
> interested, I can try to move that forward eagerly.

I guess I wonder what the expected interaction with things like
Searchlight is? Searchlight was largely created for providing this kind
of fast access to subsets of resources based on arbitrary attribute search.

	-Sean

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