Re: [Kimchi-devel] [project-kimchi][PATCHv4 0/5] Storage server query support

On 12/30/2013 12:17 AM, lvroyce(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Let me explain what I expect with this patch set: GET /storageservers will return all storage servers Example: [ {'host': 'localhost', 'target_type': 'netfs', 'sources': ['/srv', '/mnt/isos'], } {'host': '123.234.123.12', 'target_type': 'iscsi', 'sources': ['iqn.2013-06.com.example:iscsi-pool'], } ] GET /storageservers?target_type=<server-type> will return only the storage servers with type <server-type> Example: GET /storageservers?target_type=netfs [ {'host': 'localhost', 'target_type': 'netfs', 'sources': ['/srv', '/mnt/isos'], } ] GET /storageservers/<id> will return data related to this specific server Example: GET /storageservers/localhost {'host': 'localhost', 'target_type': 'netfs', 'sources': ['/srv', '/mnt/isos'], } The 'sources' for netfs, for example, will be the parsed output from "showmount -e <host>" command. So when the user want to create NFS pool with a new server (never used before) POST /storageservers/new-nfs-server {'host': 'new-nfs-server', 'target_type': 'netfs', 'sources': ['/srv', '/mnt'], } Then the user know which paths are available to create the NFS pool Does that make sense for you?