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Hi, Thanks for your reply, after check again and I agree with you. I think
we should come up with a conclusion about how we should treat this limit=0
across nova. And that's also why I sent out this mail. I will register this
topic in the API meeting open discussion section, my be a BP in M to fix
this.

BR,

Zheng

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell <
kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 15:41 +0800, Zhenyu Zheng wrote:
> > Hi, I found out that nova currently handles list with limit=0 quite
> > different for different objects.
> >
> > Especially when list servers:
> >
> > According to the code:
> >
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/api/openstack/common.py#n206
> >
> > when limit = 0, it should apply as max_limit, but currently, in:
> >
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/nova/db/sqlalchemy/api.py#n1930
> >
> > we directly return [], this is quite different with comment in the api
> > code.
> >
> >
> > I checked other objects:
> >
> > when list security groups and server groups, it will return as no
> > limit has been set. And for flavors it returns []. I will continue to
> > try out other APIs if needed.
> >
> > I think maybe we should make a rule for all objects, at least fix the
> > servers to make it same in api and db code.
> >
> > I have reported a bug in launchpad:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1494617
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> After seeing the test failures that showed up on your proposed fix, I'm
> thinking that the proposed change reads like an API change, requiring a
> microversion bump.  That said, I approve of increased consistency across
> the API, and perhaps the behavior on limit=0 is something the API group
> needs to discuss a guideline for?
> --
> Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com>
> Rackspace
>
>
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