Sorry, my email client didn’t properly thread replies, so I just saw Simon’s reply. Seems that setting limit -1 is effectively telling it to paginate, so feel free to ignore that suggestion :-D
We should perhaps still consider a better way to let people know that’s happening. At the very least I’ll look over the docs and see if we need to open a docs bug. -- Kevin On 5/19/16, 7:49 AM, "Kevin Bringard (kevinbri)" <kevin...@cisco.com> wrote: >Given that there’s already the ability to start listing from a specific >VM/UUID, it seems like we should add some pagination functionality in there. >Maybe we need to add an “—all” flag or something which is non-admin and >returns all VMs for the specific tenant. Then if someone really does want all >10,000 VMs they’re running in a tenant they can get them, and still honor >osapi_max_limit (per subsequent paged call). > >Alternatively (or perhaps in addition to?) if there are more results than the >osapi_max_limit, or some other limit set, we should tell people “showing 1000 >of 10,000 results, use –marker <last uuid> to show the next 1000” or something. > >Limits are something people tend to be OK with, but having to dig into >un/under-documented issues is what makes them straight up angry. If there’s >something we can do to help alleviate that it seems worth investigating. > >On 5/18/16, 5:26 PM, "James Downs" <e...@egon.cc> wrote: > >>On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 04:37:42PM -0600, David Medberry wrote: >> >>> It seems to bypass it... or I'm running into a LOWER limit (undocumented). >>> So help on limit -1 says it is still limited by osapi_max_limit >> >>You're looking for: >> >>--marker <marker> The last server UUID of the previous page; >> displays list of servers after "marker". >> >>This is much faster than increasing the size of results, at least in >>sufficiently >>large environments. >> >>Cheers, >>-j >> >>_______________________________________________ >>OpenStack-operators mailing list >>OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org >>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-operators mailing list >OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
