[Spacewalk-list] API call packages.search.name does not produce full package listing

[Stephen Herr]

On 05/16/2014 12:06 PM, Stas Bobylev wrote:
> I was wondering if there have been any changes with the
> packages.search.name API call? Since the upgrade to version 2.1, the
> call only returns a single result. Previously (at least in version 1.8),
> the same call would return all packages, including different versions
> and releases of the same package, that matched the search pattern.
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import xmlrpclib
>
> search_pattern = "some_custom_package"
>
> client = xmlrpclib.Server("https://spacewalk/rpc/api", verbose=0)
>
> key = client.auth.login("user", "password")
>
> package_list = client.packages.search.name(key, search_pattern)
>
> print package_list
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stas
>
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Hi Stas,

Yes you're absolutely correct. This bug was introduced during some 
performance improvements. It is fixed in Spacewalk nightly, and will be 
released in Spacewalk 2.2. See 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099097 for more information.

-Stephen