API get Instance details

kamzar1 · November 20, 2021, 12:42pm

Whilst
GET /1.0/instances?recursion=2
delivers very detailed information including recursion 2 of networks/snapshots/backups… which leads to a quite large output (depends on number instances in a project), a single instance query
GET /1.0/instances/containerx?recursion=2 is a little bit sparse.

When you need that depth of information for a single container, need to go through global output and fetch one single instance or do the below:

GET /1.0/instances/containerx?recursion=2
GET /1.0/instances/containerx/state?recursion=2
GET /1.0/instances/containerx/snapshotss?recursion=2
GET /1.0/instances/containerx/backups?recursion=2

It would be helpful, when GET /1.0/instances/containerx?recursion=2 would rather output similar to /1.0/instances?recursion=2 for one instance only.

tomp · November 22, 2021, 8:53am

Yes that would seem to make sense to me too, for consistency.

Please can you log an issue at https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues

Thanks

kamzar1 · November 22, 2021, 10:17am

github.com/lxc/lxd

API get Instance with more in-depth information

opened 10:17AM - 22 Nov 21 UTC

kamzar1

LXD v. 4.20 Whilst `GET /1.0/instances?recursion=2` delivers very detailed …information including recursion 2 of networks/snapshots/backups… `GET /1.0/instances/containerx?recursion=2` is a bit sparse. Fetching a single container out of GET /1.0/instances?recursion=2 output rather inconvenient, due to size of output in case numerous containers inside project. It would be easier, getting same output for a single instance when GET /1.0/instances/containerx?recursion=2 than querying like this: ``` GET /1.0/instances/containerx?recursion=2 GET /1.0/instances/containerx/state?recursion=2 GET /1.0/instances/containerx/snapshots?recursion=2 GET /1.0/instances/containerx/backups?recursion=2 ``` to get same result.