Querying Images (Native OpenStack API)

Function

This API is used to obtain the image list.

This API does not return the complete result at once, but uses pagination.

Pagination

Pagination refers to the function of returning a subset of a group of images, a link to obtain the next set of images, and a link of the set of images. By default, a set contains 25 images. You can also use the limit and marker parameters to paginate through images manually and specify the number of images that can be returned.

The parameter first in the response indicates the URL of the first page of images, and parameter next indicates the URL of the next page of images. When the last page of images is queried, there is no parameter next.

URI

GET /v2/images

  • You can type a question mark (?) and an ampersand (&) at the end of the URI to define multiple search criteria. For details, see the example request.
  • If you need the API of the OpenStack Queens release, the request header must contain X-Api-Version. If the value of X-Api-Version is any letter after M in the Alphabet, the API of the Queens release is returned. If the value is M or a letter before M, the API of the Mitaka release is returned.
Table 1 lists the parameters.
Table 1 Parameter description

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

__isregistered

No

String

Specifies whether the image is available. The value can be true. The value is true for all extension APIs by default. Common users can query only the images for which the value of this parameter is true.

__imagetype

No

String

Specifies the image type. The following types are supported:

  • Public image: The value is gold.
  • Private image: The value is private.
  • Shared image: The value is shared.

protected

No

Boolean

Specifies whether the image is protected. The value is true or false. Set it to true when you query public images. This parameter is optional when you query private images.

visibility

No

String

Specifies whether the image is available to other tenants. Available values include:

  • public: public image
  • private: private image
  • shared: shared image
NOTE:

When the visibility value is private, private images that have shared with others are not queried.

owner

No

String

Specifies the tenant to which the image belongs.

id

No

String

Specifies the image ID.

status

No

String

Specifies the image status. The value can be one of the following:

  • queued: indicates that the image metadata has already been created, and it is ready for the image file to upload.
  • saving: indicates that the image file is being uploaded to the backend storage.
  • deleted: indicates that the image has been deleted.
  • killed: indicates that an error occurs on the image uploading.
  • active: indicates that the image is available for use.

name

No

String

Specifies the image name. Exact matching is used. For detailed description, see Image Attributes.

container_format

No

String

Specifies the container type. The default value is bare.

disk_format

No

String

Specifies the image format. The value can be zvhd2, vhd, zvhd, raw, or qcow2. The default value is zvhd2.

min_ram

No

Integer

Specifies the minimum memory size (MB) required for running the image. The parameter value depends on the ECS specifications. Generally, the value is 0.

min_disk

No

Integer

Specifies the minimum disk space (GB) required for running the image. The value ranges from 1 GB to 1024 GB.

__os_bit

No

String

Specifies the OS architecture, 32 bit or 64 bit.

__platform

No

String

Specifies the image platform type. The value can be Windows, Ubuntu, RedHat, SUSE, CentOS, Debian, OpenSUSE, Oracle Linux, Fedora, Other, CoreOS, or EulerOS.

marker

No

String

Specifies the start number from which images are queried. The value is the image ID.

limit

No

Integer

Specifies the number of images to be queried. The value is an integer. By default, 25 images can be queried.

sort_key

No

String

Specifies the field for sorting the query results. The value can be an attribute of the image: name, container_format, disk_format, status, id, size, or create_at. The default value is create_at.

sort_dir

No

String

Specifies whether the query results are sorted in ascending or descending order. Its value can be desc (default) or asc. This parameter is used together with parameter sort_key. The default value is desc.

__os_type

No

String

Specifies the image OS type. The value can be Linux, Windows, or Other.

tag

No

String

Specifies a tag added to an image. Tags can be used as a filter to query images.

NOTE:

The tagging function has been upgraded. If the tags added before the function upgrade are in the format of "Key.Value", query tags using "Key=Value". For example, an existing tag is a.b. After the tag function upgrade, query the tag using "tag=a=b".

member_status

No

String

Specifies the member status. The value can be accepted, rejected, or pending. accepted: indicates that the shared image is accepted. rejected indicates that the image shared by others is rejected. pending indicates that the image shared by others needs to be confirmed. To use this parameter, set visibility to shared during the query.

__support_kvm

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports KVM. If yes, the value is true. Otherwise, this parameter is not required.

__support_xen

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports Xen. If yes, the value is true. Otherwise, this parameter is not required.

__support_largememory

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports large-memory ECSs. If the image supports large-memory ECSs, the value is true. Otherwise, this parameter is not required. For details about the image OSs supported by large-memory ECSs, see Table 4.

__support_diskintensive

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports disk-intensive ECSs. If the image supports disk-intensive ECSs, the value is true. Otherwise, this parameter is not required. For details about the image OSs supported by disk-intensive ECSs, see Table 4.

__support_highperformance

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports high-performance ECSs. If the image supports high-performance ECSs, the value is true. Otherwise, this parameter is not required. For details about the image OSs supported by high-performance computing ECSs, see Table 4.

__support_xen_gpu_type

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports GPU-accelerated ECSs on the Xen platform. For details about the image OSs supported by GPU-accelerated ECSs, see Table 2. If the image does not support GPU-accelerated ECSs on the Xen platform, this parameter is not required. This attribute cannot co-exist with __support_xen and __support_kvm.

__support_kvm_gpu_type

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports GPU-accelerated ECSs on the KVM platform. See Table 3 for its value. If the image does not support GPU-accelerated ECSs on the KVM platform, this parameter is not required. This attribute cannot co-exist with __support_xen and __support_kvm.

__support_xen_hana

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports HANA ECSs on the Xen platform. If yes, the value is true. Otherwise, this parameter is not required.

This attribute cannot co-exist with __support_xen and __support_kvm.

__support_kvm_infiniband

No

String

Specifies whether the image supports ECSs with the InfiniBand NIC on the KVM platform. If yes, the value is true. Otherwise, this parameter is not required.

This attribute cannot co-exist with __support_xen.

created_at

No

String

Specifies the time when the image was created. Images can be queried by time. The value is in the format of Operator:UTC time.

The following operators are supported:

  • gt: greater than
  • gte: greater than or equal to
  • lt: less than
  • lte: less than or equal to
  • eq: equal to
  • neq: not equal to

The time format is yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ or yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.

For example, to query images created before Oct 28, 2018 10:00:00, set the value of created_at to lt:2018-10-28T10:00:00Z.

updated_at

No

String

Specifies the time when the image was modified. Images can be queried by time. The value is in the format of Operator:UTC time.

The following operators are supported:

  • gt: greater than
  • gte: greater than or equal to
  • lt: less than
  • lte: less than or equal to
  • eq: equal to
  • neq: not equal to

The time format is yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ or yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.

For example, to query images updated before Oct 28, 2018 10:00:00, set the value of updated_at to lt:2018-10-28T10:00:00Z.

Common Query Methods

Request

Response

Returned Values