Rudder

Maybe it's a little confusing that I used the Name key in the above examples. I also made a mistake in the above examples.

Let's do it with the Room key to make sure things are clear.

User: Dennis Cabooter
Room: 16.14

Now I can do:

Name=Value > Regexp > .*=.*16.14

Or:

Name=Value > Name= > Room=16.14

It would be nice if that could be a little more easy. E.g.

Name=Value > Name= > Room

And:

Name=Value > Value= > 16.14

For example if I want to list all the nodes that have the Name/Room keys set. Maybe I forgot one, and in this case I don't have to check all nodes one by one.

Additionally to the "Regex" criterium, it would be nice if was possible to search on "Part of string" without knowing how to do regexes.
This would apply to all search criteria in Rudder.

One thing to add, but maybe it should be a separate ticket. The properties have key=value pairs. But in the API and in searching you call it name=value. This is quitte confusing.

Thanks, and of course you are right.

Could you open a different ticket for the last comment, clearly a bug in consistancy.

Done :)

Thikning of it, the first problem seems to be that there is no online documentation about what is allowed in each field. If there was example of regex (or authorized units, for that matter), it would ease the pain - not a solution to that problem, but an other missing thing that make it even worse.

See http://www.rudder-project.org/redmine/issues/3616 http://www.rudder-project.org/redmine/issues/113