[Maas-devel] Allow API to use <system_id | hostname> for all operations that currently require the system_id

[Julian Edwards]

On 30/05/14 00:14, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
> still does not completely solve it because there's still some overhead.
> We would still (and always) have to get the system_id of a node or all
> nodes.

And this is unlikely to ever change.  system_id was invented and used as
the primary ID because it is immutable, unlike the host name.

It will be possible to add additional methods to return a node by
hostname, with this caveat, but its ID will still be the system_id.