[Maas-devel] Allow names instead of IDs ?

[Blake Rouse]

John,

We have implemented this logic for the storage API's. We have a bug filed
to do the same for the networking API in 1.9.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1510917

Thanks,
Blake

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:16 AM, John Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> I was using the CLI some more to create spaces and subnets in them, and
> kept running into the difficulty having to remember IDs rather than being
> able to pass in names.
>
> So I investigated what it would take to actually use names, and I came up
> with this patch:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~jameinel/maas/space-from-name/+merge/276632
>
> It is by no means well tested or complete, but it did let me do "maas m1
> subnet create name=foo space=bar" and have that work rather than "space=1"
> and also lets me do "maas m1 subnet delete foo" instead of just the id.
>
> Is this a sane direction to be going? I'm concerned about compatibility
> because while "to_field_name" lets me change *what* key is used, it doesn't
> let me allow IDs *or* names.
>
> Thoughts appreciated,
> John
> =:->
>
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