Querying Images (Discarded)

Function

This API is used to query all images.

This API has been discarded. Use the API described in "Querying Images (Native OpenStack API)".

URI

GET /v2.1/{project_id}/images?name={name}&status={status}&changes-since={changes-since}&minRam={minRam}&minDisk={inDisk}

Table 1 describes the parameters in the URI.

Table 1 Path parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Description

project_id

Yes

Specifies the project ID.

For details about how to obtain the ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Parameters in the following table can be used as URI parameters to filter query results. Usage: /v2/{project_id}/images? name ={name}&status={status}

Table 2 describes the query parameters.

Table 2 Query parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

name

No

String

Specifies the image name.

status

No

String

Specifies the image status.

You cannot query images when the value is set to deleted. The value depends on the status in Glance. Table 3 shows the mapping relationship of image status in Nova and Glance.

changes-since

No

String

Specifies the images modified after the changes-since time point. The parameter is in ISO 8601 time format, for example, 2013-06-09T06:42:18Z.

minRam

No

Integer

Specifies the minimum memory size in MB required by the image.

minDisk

No

Integer

Specifies the minimum disk size in GB required by the image.

Table 3 Mapping relationship of image status in Nova and Glance

Image Status in Glance

Image Status in Nova

queued

saving

saving

saving

active

active

deleted

deleted

Request

None

Response

Table 4 describes the response parameters.

Table 4 Response parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

images

Yes

Array of objects

Specifies the image information.

images_links

No

Array of objects

Specifies the information about the next page when you query images in pages.

Table 5 images information

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

id

Yes

String

Specifies the image ID in UUID format.

links

Yes

Array of objects

Specifies the shortcut link of the image.

name

Yes

String

Specifies the image name.

Table 6 images_links parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

href

Yes

String

Specifies the URL of the next page when you query images in pages.

rel

Yes

String

Specifies the query direction when you query images in pages.

Table 7 links parameter description

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

href

Yes

String

Specifies the link of the corresponding resource.

rel

Yes

String

The value can be:

  • self: A self link contains a version link to the resource. Use these links when the link is followed immediately.

  • bookmark: A bookmark link provides a permanent link to a resource, which is suitable for long term storage.

  • alternate: An alternate link can contain an alternate representation of the resource. For example, an OpenStack Compute image may have an alternate representation in the OpenStack image service.

type

No

String

The type attribute provides a hint as to the type of representation to expect when following the link.

Example Request

GET https://{endpoint}/v2.1/9c53a566cb3443ab910cf0daebca90c4/images

Example Response

{
    "images": [
        {
            "id": "ee10f19c-503c-44af-af2f-73d5e42f7a17",
            "links": [
                {
                    "href": "http://xxx/v2/d9ebe43510414ef590a4aa158605329e/images/ee10f19c-503c-44af-af2f-73d5e42f7a17",
                    "rel": "self"
                },
                {
                    "href": "http://xxx/d9ebe43510414ef590a4aa158605329e/images/ee10f19c-503c-44af-af2f-73d5e42f7a17",
                    "rel": "bookmark"
                },
                {
                    "href": "http://xxx/d9ebe43510414ef590a4aa158605329e/images/ee10f19c-503c-44af-af2f-73d5e42f7a17",
                    "rel": "alternate",
                    "type": "application/vnd.openstack.image"
                }
            ],
            "name": "image1"
        }
    ]
}

Returned Values

See Returned Values for General Requests.