Limit AWS images to owner by default? about cloudbridge

[nuwang]

I have this vague recollection that the GCE provider was running into similar issues. It makes sense I guess, since there are potentially thousands of images, and it doesn't make sense to page through them all - you'd typically want to find a particular image by name, architecture or some other attribute.

What if we do this - calling list() by default adds the "Owned by me" filter? If you call find() though, that default filter is removed, and the user-specified filter takes effect. We could even make it part of the Image.list()'s definition. By default, it only lists images in tenancy/project/account. But find() will search through all public and private images.

[afgane]

The AWS dashboard lists Owned by me images by default so I'd say that's a reasonable default for us as well. However, it's a bit undesirable that such filtering applies to AWS only though.

[nuwang]

Conclusion: By default, list will show images belonging to the project. However, if you do a "find", it searches everything. Have parameter filter_by_owner=True/False

[afgane]

I added the filtering but I don't recall if we said the filter_by_owner should be added at the interface level and hence implemented for all the providers or something else?

[nuwang]

Yes, the conclusion was to add it at interface level for all providers for the list method, but remove it when doing a find etc.

[afgane]

Finished up with c7b46a3