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Hi folks,
Currently, we have supported "aodh alarm list" and "aodh alarm search" 
commands to query alarms.  They both need mandatory "--type" parameter, 
and I want to drop the limitation[1]. if we agree that, the "alarm 
list"  will only used to list all alarms and don't support any query 
pamareters, it will be equal to "alarm search" command without any 
--query parameter specified.  The "alarm search" command is designed to 
support complex query which can perform almost all the filtering query, 
the complex query has been supportted in Gnocchi.  IRC meeting 
disscussions [3].

So we don't need two overlapping interfaces and want to drop one, "alarm 
list" or "alarm search" ?

i. The "alarm search" need users to post a expression in JSON format to 
perform spedific query, it is not easy to use and it is unlike a 
customary practice (I mean the most common usages of filtering query of 
other openstack projects), compare to "alarm list --filter xxx=zzz" usage.

ii. we don't have a strong requirement to support *complex* query 
scenarios of alarms, we only have alarms and alarm history records in aodh.

iii. I personally think it is enough to support filtering query with 
"--filter" which is easy to implement [2], and, we have plan to support 
pagination query in aodh.

any thoughts ?

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/283958/
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/283959/
[3] 
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-meeting/%23openstack-meeting.2016-03-03.log.html#t2016-03-03T15:21:14