Good to know ! Please note that I added a comment in the RFE for this feature saying it was no longer a priority for us as we worked around the limitation. If you are adding this for other purposes, do go ahead :) David Moreau Simard Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter] On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > hi, > > I'm going to be working on extending the admin.ci API. The intention is > to add the following calls: > > /Session/get?key=<api key>&alias=<some text> : this will create a new > session for the api key specified, but will not allocate any nodes to > this session. The alias param is optional, if specified the session can > be referenced with that alias ( in addition to / rather than the ssid ). > > /Session/done?key=<api key>&ssid=<ssid | alias for session > : this will > tear down the session, including all Nodes allocated to the session. The > ssid can be specified as either the UUID based ssid returned from the > /Session/get call or the alias requested. > > In addition to these two new calls, the /Node/get call will get an > optional ssid= param; calling /Node/get with an ssid will add the > requested nodes to the existing session, rather than create a new > session. The ssid can be either the uuid based ssid allocated at > /Session/get or an alias to an existing session. > > The /Node/done call will also get an optional additional param in node= > where you can specify the hostname of the machine to be dropped from an > existing session, without terminating the entire session. > > With these four changes going in, it would be possible to setup a > session, add nodes to that session as they are needed, drop hosts as > required, and then tear down the session when done. The alias option > could be used for various things, including accounting by job name, job > type etc. > > Existing scripts that use the API will not need any changes, there will > be no change to the existing calls. > > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > Ci-users mailing list > Ci-users at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ci-users