[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Find hardware_pool by path; search by parent_id

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:34 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 05:00:18PM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > Get individual hardware pool with a path, e.g. with a GET to
> >   /ovirt/hardware_pools?path=/default/foo/bar
> > 
> > Get children of a hardware pool from
> >   /ovirt/hardware_pools?parent_id=1
> > 
> > Get specific child with
> >   /ovirt/hardware_pools?parent_id=1&name=foo
> 
> Guess I have similar questions about the URI syntax here as the previous
> mail. Should we be encoding the name of the object as a parameter, vs
> part of the URI path ? I've always thought of the URI path as providing
> lookup for the object, and the parameters as filters/modifiers for the
> data returned / action performed

I assume this is about the path parameter: on one hand it would be
nicer, on the other it would keep us from addressing nested objects,
e.g. the hosts in a hardware pool as /ovirt/hardware_pools/1/hosts - is
that the hosts for the hw pool with id 1 or is it the hw pool 'hosts'
inside the pool '1' ?

In any event, the exact structure of the URL's is an implementation
detail that isn't exposed to somebody scripting against the API. (at
least not in Ruby)

David