[RFC PATCH] REST: Add new setting for maximum API page size

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Wed Jul 25 17:01:16 AEST 2018


On 24/07/18 15:10, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> In 41790caf59ad ("REST: Limit max page size") we limited the maximum page
> size to the default page size in the settings.
> 
> This turns out to be rather restrictive, as we usually want to keep the
> default page size low, but an administrator may want to allow API clients
> to fetch more than that per request.
> 
> Add a new setting, MAX_REST_RESULTS_PER_PAGE, to set the maximum page size.
> 
> Closes: #202 ("Separate max API page size and default API page size into different settings")
> Suggested-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.ibm.com>
> Suggested-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

FWIW we now have this applied on patchwork.ozlabs.org and it appears to 
be working. Would like some more input as to what an appropriate default 
limit is.

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited



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