[Bug 1027154] Re: need way to get system based on mac address

[Raphaël Badin]

I see two possible solutions to that problem:
a) we could add a "lookup" method to the API.  The method would return a list of system IDs from a set of criteria (mac adress would be one of the possible criteria).
b) or, if we want to promote the mac address as an identifier, we could allow the mac to be used as an identifier when calling the API: e.g. the definition of the API url for a node handler would be: r'nodes/(?P<system_id_or_mac_address>[\w\-]+)/$'
Given the fact that the system id is auto-generated (and UUID-based) and that the mac address has a well defined format, there is no risk of conflict.

** Changed in: maas
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: maas
       Status: New => Triaged

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