Bug#694035: JSON based API to query available AMIs

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 09:31:28PM +0800, James Bromberger a écrit :
> 
> Any AMI list could be done as a CloudFront template - see the example on
> http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze. This example can be
> put into an AWS Bucket for public distribution. We could also chose to
> publish the "mappings" section similarly for inclusion into other templates.

Hi James and everybody,

in order to experience myself with parsing remote JSON data, I have copied the
mapping of image identifiers of Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze to
Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze/JSON.

Here is what I added to the Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze page.

    It is planned to provide a machine-readable version of the above list of
    images. For the sake of the brainstorm, a JSON version is temporarly placed at
    Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze/JSON. However, the structure is very likely to
    change, see #694035 for details. Here is a naive example on how to query the
    list. euca-describe-images $(curl --silent
    http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Squeeze/JSON?action=raw | jsonpipe
    | awk '/Debian606.ap-northeast-1.64/ {print $2}' | sed 's/"//g')

Have a nice week-end,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan