660314 - Provide full list of environment names as part of environment-group response object

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Mozilla QA :: Case Conductor-Platform, enhancement)

Description

[Carl Meyer (:carljm)]

The reasonable objection to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659414 is that it could increase the size of responses too much, when environment profile data is not always needed.

A compromise measure that would greatly reduce the number of queries needed to display environment profile data in a useful format, would be if responses for environment groups contained the full list of member environment names and their type names. So a single API call to fetch the environmentgroups for an object would contain all the data needed to display that object's environment profile usefully, whereas currently just displaying environment profile for a single object can require many API calls.

If you are querying environment groups, you are pretty much always going to want the names of the member environments and their types. And environment groups are not likely to be so huge as to cause a response-size problem here.

Comment 1

[Cameron Dawson [:camd]]

Carl, would you like me to promote this to a candidate for 1.0 fixing in the platform?

Comment 2

[Carl Meyer (:carljm)]

To be clear, environment-group response should include both name *and type name* of each member environment.

Comment 3

[Vadim]

OK, I think, I'll add another end-point - /environmentgroups/exploded/ to return all the contained environments. This way you'll have options on what to return back...

I'll do the same for profiles - /environmentprofiles/exploded/, which would return all the exploded groups for profile...