For API clients that require access to large parts of the data set, I've actually proposed a solution that doesn't involve the REST API at all. It's likely that this particular spec will also be the backbone of storyboard's federation (assuming we don't argue it into oblivion). https://review.openstack.org/#/c/105252/ Michael On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote: > > > However for API usage, complete scans of result sets are much more > common, and they caused substantial remedial performance work to be > needed in Launchpad (which was also built with the idea that only the > first few pages need to be fast). > > If I may be so bold, the rule of thumb 'if we can't do it fast, don't > do it' is a very sensible one for many API implementations, and one > that I rather suspect will apply here. > > -Rob > > -- > Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com> > Distinguished Technologist > HP Converged Cloud > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/attachments/20141120/2c0c026c/attachment.html>