Implement natural keys as primary keys for related fields

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Implement natural keys as primary keys for related fields #262

Closed jathanism closed 7 years ago

jathanism commented 7 years ago

This is so that any objects that support natural keys can also use these values as primary keys in the API when creating/updating related fields. For example:

Interface(name='ae0.0', device='foo1-br01', parent='foo1-br01:ae0')
Circuit(endpoint_a='foo1-br01:ae0', endpoint_z='bar1-bb01:ae0')
etc.

This will facilitate more user-friendly object payloads as well as allowing the CLI interaction by humans to be much more intuitive and not rely so heavily upon numeric object IDs.

yeled commented 7 years ago

This would be amazing, and allow much easier integration with scripts etc.