Specify IRRDB source

[momorientes]

In order to avoid conflicts it would be great to specify the source database, analog to bgpq3 -S <source>.

I'm happy to contribute some code but would like to discuss general design in advance.

The biggest question I'd like to discuss is in which way this should be passed via the API, some suggestions:

/<string:format>/<string:obj>/<string:policy>?source=<string>
/<string:source>/<string:format>/<string:obj>/<string:policy>

[benmaddison]

In order to avoid conflicts it would be great to specify the source database, analog to bgpq3 -S <source>.

Agreed. There are a bunch of reasons one might want this.
For us, one use case is for lists that should use only "properly authenticated" sources.

I'm happy to contribute some code but would like to discuss general design in advance.

The biggest question I'd like to discuss is in which way this should be passed via the API, some suggestions:

/<string:format>/<string:obj>/<string:policy>?source=<string>
/<string:source>/<string:format>/<string:obj>/<string:policy>

I think there is a place for both forms:

• if you want to pass an explicit list of source names, then the parameters form is what you want (even if the list is a singleton)
• if you want to configure a named list of sources, and then pass the name (i.e. <string:source-list-name>), the path form is better

The use case you've described would probably require the first style. Ours would use the second.

Thoughts?

[benmaddison]

Oh, and I think that if both named-list and parameter list were provided, the expected result would use the intersection of the two sets. Right?