[pve-devel] [PATCH manager 2/6] ceph: add GET 'allflags'

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 7/22/19 4:08 PM, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> we want a GET api call where we return all available flags with
> description, but the GET 'flags' api call already returns a string
> and not an array, so we cannot use that
> 
> instead, we add a new api call that returns that feature and
> with e.g. pve 7 we can remove the 'flags' api call and
> rename 'allflags' to 'flags'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>
> ---
> i am not too attached to the name 'allflags' but could not come up
> with a better one
> 
> also could not think of any other possibility than adding a seperate
> api call besides a breaking api change, but maybe someone has an idea?

a current drawback we already have (with or without this patch) is that
while we can set flags by doing a:

POST: /nodes/NODE/ceph/flags/FLAGNAME

we have no directory index for it..