[Hawkular-dev] availability and metric endpoints

[mike thompson]

> On 20 Mar 2015, at 08:19, Lukas Krejci <lkrejci at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> I think the "metrics" should actually be dropped instead of "numeric”.

The only thing about ‘numeric’ is that it is not very specific. Numeric just means number — every metric is a number so its really not adding anything. Even availability data is numeric.

> 
> Hawk metrics will never deal with anything else than some kind of metric, so 
> way have it in the path? On the other hand having the type of the metric in 
> the path is IMHO more useful.
> 
> It is the context root of the metrics rest web app that should be called 
> "metrics", IMHO.
> 
> So the paths in metrics would look like:
> 
> /{tenantId}/numeric/data
> /{tenantId}/availability/data
> 
> and the REST API user would reach those on the URLs like:
> 
> http://asdf.com/hawkular/metrics/tenant1/numeric/{id}/data
> 
> conversely, inventory could be reached on the same host like:
> 
> http://asdf.com/hawkular/inventory/tenant1/production/resources/{id}
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 20, 2015 11:00:22 John Sanda wrote:
>> There has been some good discussion around availability lately. I want to
>> add one more to the mix, but hopefully this one is not as in-depth as some
>> of the other topics. Right in metrics we have endpoints like,
>> 
>> POST   /metrics/numeric/data
>> GET     /metrics/numeric/{id}/data
>> POST  /metrics/availability/data
>> GET    /metrics/availability/{id}/data
>> 
>> I would like to change these to,
>> 
>> POST   /metrics/data
>> GET     /metrics/{id}/data
>> POST  /availability/data
>> GET    /availability/{id}/data
>> 
>> I think the “metrics” prefix is awkward and unnecessary. I think that it is
>> intuitive enough that metrics on its own refers to numeric data. Thoughts?
>> 
>> 
>> - John
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