Arvados

Feature #12917

Updated by Peter Amstutz about 7 years ago

Users should be able to see the exit code or state=[“Queued”, “Locked”, “Running”, “Cancelled” and “Complete”] from the container_request api method, rather than having to go another layer deeper to the container api method. 

 h2. Proposed solution 

 Add a general "include" option to the index (list) method. 

 include=container includes the contents of the record associated with container_uuid 

 Can only be used on fields ending in _uuid 

 A query like this would return: 

 ?include=container 

 <pre> 
 { 
   "items": [ 
     { 
       "kind": "arvados#container_request", 
       "uuid": "abc-123", 
       "container_uuid": "xyz-123" 
       ... 
     } 
   ], 
   "includes": [ 
     { 
       "uuid": "xyz-123", 
       "state": "Completed", 
       "exit_code": 0, 
       ... 
     } 
   ] 
 } 
 </pre> 

 Initially we will only adopt this syntax but initially limiting the implementation to only container requests. 

 If used for anything other than include=container on container_request it should return an API error. 

 Discussion points for future: 

 * selecting fields in the includes 
 * Permission enforcement.    Permission to read a container is based on permission to read the container_request, but this is not true generally.    For example, permission to read a container request doesn't grant permission to read output_uuid. 
 * Straightforward to set up a join when the _uuid field points to exactly one record type (only collections, only containers, etc) but more complex when it can point to multiple (owner_uuid, head/tail_uuid on links)

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