[Maas-devel] Allow API to use <system_id | hostname> for all operations that currently require the system_id

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

On 2014-05-30 03:10, Julian Edwards wrote:

> It will be possible to add additional methods to return a node by
> hostname, with this caveat, but its ID will still be the system_id.

Another thing we could do is introduce special CLI syntax for: I'm 
naming a host here, but by its hostname, so substitute its ID.

That would eliminate the ambiguity.  Implementation could happen on 
either side.


Jeroen