Github user ahgittin commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/810#discussion_r139994671
--- Diff:
rest/rest-api/src/main/java/org/apache/brooklyn/rest/api/SubtypeApi.java ---
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+package org.apache.brooklyn.rest.api;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
+import javax.ws.rs.DefaultValue;
+import javax.ws.rs.GET;
+import javax.ws.rs.Path;
+import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
+import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
+import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+
+import org.apache.brooklyn.rest.domain.TypeSummary;
+
+import io.swagger.annotations.Api;
+import io.swagger.annotations.ApiOperation;
+import io.swagger.annotations.ApiParam;
+
+@Path("/subtypes")
+@Api("Subtypes")
+@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+public interface SubtypeApi {
+
+ @Path("/{supertype}")
+ @GET
+ @ApiOperation(value = "Get all known types which declare the given
argument as a supertype",
+ response = TypeSummary.class, responseContainer = "List")
+ public List<TypeSummary> list(
+ @ApiParam(name = "supertype", value = "Supertype to query",
required = true)
+ @PathParam("supertype")
+ String supertype,
+ @ApiParam(name = "versions", value = "Whether to list 'latest' of
each symbolic-name or 'all' versions", required = false, defaultValue =
"latest")
+ @QueryParam("versions")
+ String versions,
+ @ApiParam(name = "regex", value = "Regular expression to search
for")
+ @QueryParam("regex") @DefaultValue("") String regex,
+ @ApiParam(name = "fragment", value = "Substring case-insensitive
to search for")
--- End diff --
Not if `some-fragment` contains a `.` or other special character. Globs
are more user friendly and search friendly. (This is borrowed from elsewhere
in API incidentally where we do the same thing and there have been times I've
been grateful for the easier `fragment`.)
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