[Bug 2015881] Re: Two API round trips just to show user by name (osc_lib find_resource method)

[Corey Bryant]

I'll add upstream openstackclient since this doesn't appear to be a
package specific bug for Ubuntu.

** Also affects: python-openstackclient
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Two API round trips just to show user by name (osc_lib find_resource
  method)

Status in python-openstackclient:
  New
Status in python-openstackclient package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I noticed quite a few errors about non existing users (and other
  resources) in the logs and dug a little deeper.

  When issuing a "show user" via: "openstack user show myuser",
  so using the user's name, there are two API calls:

  ```
  Output (/var/log/apache2/keystone_wsgi_access.log)
  127.0.0.1 - - [28/Mar/2023:12:52:02 +0000] "GET /v3/users/myuser HTTP/1.1" 404 84 "-" "python-keystoneclient"
  127.0.0.1 - - [28/Mar/2023:12:52:03 +0000] "GET /v3/users?name=myuser HTTP/1.1" 200 331 "-" "python-keystoneclient"
  ```

  compared to when using the id via: openstack user show
  295ddc1534a9422792d6896f6f7f223e

  
  ```
  Output (/var/log/apache2/keystone_wsgi_access.log)
  GET /v3/users/295ddc1534a9422792d6896f6f7f223e HTTP/1.1" 200 299 "-" "python-keystoneclient"
  ```

  
  Apparently it's the find_resource helper method from osc_lib (https://github.com/openstack/osc-lib/blob/db9cdc95ed96045ff47c02cf822b1ba90ffa67b0/osc_lib/utils/__init__.py#L168) that is at e.g. https://github.com/openstack/python-openstackclient/blob/864f51f427c01d13c8408782dd03be4b473f7b2e/openstackclient/identity/v3/user.py#L602 that does apply this strategy.

  
  Is there really no way to determine if the string received from the command line is an ID or some other string (~ a name) and then do "the right" call to save a round trip?


  Likely this issue applies to other resources as well as find_resource
  is also used elsewhere.

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