On Dec 6, 2016, at 9:56 AM, Chris Dent <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> * There is unresolved debate about the structure of the request being
>>>  made to the API. Is it POST or a GET, does it have a body or use
>>>  query strings? The plan is to resolve this discussion in the review
>>>  of the code at [3].
>> 
>> I personally prefer the POST after reading about the differences between the 
>> two, and when reviewing the spec on this. I'm not crazy about the scheduler 
>> having to pass a giant json string as a query parameter to a GET request on 
>> the placement API, I'd rather do that with a request body.
> 
> I think the giant json package (wherever it may reside) will only
> become a thing when we are doing actual claims via the /allocations
> endpoint, in which case a POST will be the right thing (since we're
> doing a right). The query against /resource_providers is merely to
> limit a large list of resource providers to a smaller list of
> resource providers, based on a relatively small number of
> parameters.

GET /resource_providers?DISK_GB=40&VCPU=2&MEMORY_MB=2048

For the life of me I can't see what's so scary about this. Sure, we may add a 
few more in the future, but it's never going to grow to gigantic proportions. 


-- Ed Leafe






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