location does not seem to work

[despiegk]

I am sure there are nodes in lochristi

• how can I know anyhow which locations there are, this feature is not very usable
  • maybe there should be a query where we can get all cities and all countries
• we need to make sure search is case insensitive (on server)

lets make this usable

[despiegk]

see aso #2

[despiegk]

coordinate with rest proxy server team, needs to be fixed there too

[sameh-farouk]

I think the nodes in Lochristi is in qa network now, not on testnet.

[sameh-farouk]

coordinate with rest proxy server team, needs to be fixed there too

okay, any feedback? @xmonader @AhmedHanafy725 @OmarElawady

[sameh-farouk]

I opened an issue to be dealt with string case from the server-side. also, I have changed the example script get_nodes_by_city_country.v to modify the search query and convert it to the right case no matter what case is used.

[despiegk]

still leaves the main issue which is, how can I know which countries/cities there are?

[sameh-farouk]

I opened this issue to be dealt with from the server side:

threefoldtecharchive/tfgridclient_proxy#176

Without API support, From the client side there is no thing can be done to query these info (efficiently). Any suggestions?

[xmonader]

still leaves the main issue which is, how can I know which countries/cities there are?

can use the stats endpoint https://gridproxy.dev.grid.tf/stats it gives you the nodes distribution

[sameh-farouk]

the suggested solution would work just fine.
you can find in the client usage how to query the stat endpoint using the vgrid client

Usage:
https://github.com/threefoldtech/vgrid/blob/development/gridproxy/README.md#client-usage

More info:

• GridStat Model:
  https://github.com/threefoldtech/vgrid/blob/development/gridproxy/docs/threefoldtech.vgrid.gridproxy.model.md#gridstat
• get_stat method:
  https://github.com/threefoldtech/vgrid/blob/development/gridproxy/docs/threefoldtech.vgrid.gridproxy.md#get_stats