[RFE] Support filter with floating IP address substring

[hongbin]

This report proposes to introduce a new filter for filtering floatingips list result with substring of IP address. For example:

  GET /v2.0/floatingips?floating_ip_address_substr=172.24.4.

This allows users/admins to efficiently retrieve a list of floating IP addresses within a network, which is the common usage pattern in real production scenario.

A use case is that cloud admin finds some suspicious traffics from some known floatingips cidr and want to locate the targets (i.e. the VMs). Retrieve a filtered list of floating IP addresses would be the first step for them.

[Brian Haley (brian-haley)]

Guessing this will be just like the fixed ip address substring work that was done last cycle?

[Hongbin Lu (hongbin.lu)]

@Brian,

Yes, I assume the implementation would be similar as the fixed ip substring filter.

[Hongbin Lu (hongbin.lu)]

@zhaobo,

Could you confirm if you still need this bug?

I asked that because this bug was splitted out from https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1723026 and you are the original bug reporter. Per my understanding of your comment [1], it looks things were changed and you don't need this bug anymore?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1723026/comments/17

[zhaobo (zhaobo6)]

@Hongbin,

As exposing device_id part has high priority, we may still need the filter function but not like the proposal here. So I suggest that we can leave it alone and focus on device_id part right now. If any requirements want this, just reopen this and change the description based on the real implementation of new device_id API part.

[Miguel Lavalle (minsel)]

Based on latest comments, The Neutron drivers team considers this RFE as not needed. Removing the RFE tags and marking it incomplete. If this feature is needed in the future, please submit new RFE

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