> > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:34 +0000, Thomas Herve wrote: > > > > As far as I could tell only one reservation is returned, not N? > > > > > > No, you get one reservation per call to CreateInstances. If you're calling > > CreateInstances several times, you're getting several reservations. > > > The reservations are what is holding the information about the security > > groups used, for example. > > > > Thats 'yes' then - a call to CreateInstances returns one reservation. > > > > Having our thunk to create instances return a _list of reservations_ > > makes the API harder to work with. > > We're not *creating* instances, we're describing them. A call to > CreateInstances may return a list of instances, but it's not what we're doing > right now.
There was some confusion about this which got sorted out on IRC. Robert then proposed an excellent idea that we all liked. Here's the IRC chat: [18:14] <therve`> lifeless: the API we're calling is DescribeInstances [18:14] <therve`> this one returns a list of reservations [18:14] <lifeless> ok [18:14] <lifeless> its still a little ugly to work with but I can see the rationale [18:14] <therve`> yeah, the problem is that the reservation actually holds important information [18:15] <therve`> which we can't get anywhere else [18:15] <lifeless> we could fold that down to the instance [18:15] <lifeless> if the info is only a field or two [18:15] <obiwann> lifeless: yeah, that was one of my thoughts too... still not sure how I feel about it [18:15] <lifeless> that is [18:15] <lifeless> rather than reservations[N].instances[N] [18:15] <lifeless> have instances[N].reservation [18:16] <therve`> this is a valid idea [18:16] <obiwann> yeah, I kinda like that [18:16] <obiwann> instances[N].reservation is better than what I was thinking -- https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~oubiwann/txaws/415486-reservation-object/+merge/10338 Your team txAWS Team is subscribed to branch lp:txaws. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~txawsteam Post to : txawsteam@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~txawsteam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
