⁠26.3. Retrieving Resources from a Collection

Resources are retrieved from a collection using the get and list methods.
get
Retrieves a single resource from the collection. The item to retrieve is determined based on the name provided as an argument. The get method takes these arguments:
  • name - The name of the resource to retrieve from the collection.
  • id - The globally unique identifier (GUID) of the resource to retrieve from the collection.
list
Retrieves any number of resources from the collection. The items to retrieve are determined based on the criteria provided. The list method takes these arguments:
  • **kwargs - A dictionary of additional arguments allowing keyword based filtering.
  • query - A query written in the same format as that used for searches executed using the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization user interfaces.
  • max - The maximum number of resources to retrieve.
  • case_sensitive - Whether or not search terms are to be treated as case sensitive (True or False, the default is True).
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