[Openstack] [Metering] External API definition

Nick Barcet nick.barcet at canonical.com
Wed May 9 16:44:01 UTC 2012



Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com> wrote:

>On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Nick Barcet
><nick.barcet at canonical.com>wrote:
>
>> On 05/08/2012 08:27 AM, Nick Barcet wrote:
>> [..]
>>
>> Thinking about this, I think we need to expend the API a bit to
>reflect
>> the evolutions of the schema that we decided last week.  Here are my
>> proposals:
>>
>> > * Requests allow to
>> >   GET account_id list
>>
>> change to: GET [user_id|project_id|source] list
>>
>
>Does the [value|value] syntax mean "choose one" or "combine"? I assume
>"choose one" and you are using square brackets because parens are used
>in some of the other queries.

You assumed correctly :)

>>
>> >   GET list of counter_type
>> >   GET list of events per account
>> >     optional start and end for counter_datetime
>> >     optional counter_type
>>
>> change to: GET list of events per [user_id|project_id|source]
>>     optional start and end for counter_datetime
>>    optional counter_type
>>
>
>Users may cross projects, so I'm not sure it makes sense to ask for the
>events generated by a user without restricting it by the project. At
>the very least we may need to allow them to specify user_id or project_id
>or both.

Good point. Thanks for catching this.

>>
>> >   GET sum of (counter_volume, counter_duration) for counter_type
>and
>> > account_id
>> >     optional start and end for counter_datetime
>>
>>   GET sum of (counter_volume, counter_duration) for counter_type and
>> [user_id|project_id|source]
>>      optional start and end for counter_datetime
>>
>> Hope this makes sense.
>>
>> Another item that we need to discuss is extensibility of this API.
>>
>> Nick





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