Hi Koushik,
I agree with the idea of supporting multiple IDs. But I may not like the
idea of introducing another different query parameter "ids" for this
purpose. Why cannot we just change current "id" parameter to take a list
of values? This way, user will not need to use two different parameters
for single or multiple cases. Maintaining two different parameters for
similar purpose is error-prone. If you look at Amazon EC2 api, you will
notice that they are also using the similar convention, id parameter can
be one or more.
Thanks
-min
On 2/6/14 3:24 AM, "Koushik Das" <koushik....@citrix.com> wrote:
>Yes it will be like a findByIds() and the one id case is just a special
>case for this.
>
>On 06-Feb-2014, at 4:24 PM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> looks nice, it will be backed by the current query for one id? or will
>> you write a findByIds()?
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Abhinandan Prateek
>> <abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> +1, The listVM call is one of the most resource intensive call. Any
>>>step
>>> to optimise it are welcome.
>>>
>>> On 06/02/14 2:01 pm, "Koushik Das" <koushik....@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Currently list VM can only be called using a single VM ID. So if
>>>>there is
>>>> a need to query a set of VMs using ID then either multiple list VM
>>>>calls
>>>> need to be made or all VMs needs to be fetched and then do a client
>>>>side
>>>> filtering. Both approaches are sub-optimal - the former results in
>>>> multiple queries to database and the latter will be an overkill if you
>>>> need a small subset from a very large number of VMs.
>>>>
>>>> The proposal is to have an additional parameter to specify a list of
>>>>VM
>>>> IDs for which the data needs to be fetched. Using this the required
>>>>VMs
>>>> can be queried in an efficient manner. With the new parameter the
>>>>syntax
>>>> would look like
>>>>
>>>>http://localhost:8096/api?command=listVirtualMachines&listAll=true&ids=
>>>>edd
>>>> ac053-9b12-4d2e-acb7-233de2e98112,009966fc-4d7b-4f84-8609-254979ba0134
>>>>
>>>> The new 'ids' parameter will be mutually exclusive with the existing
>>>>'id'
>>>> parameter.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if there are any concerns/comments.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Koushik
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daan
>
