API Pagination misbehavior

[praiskup]

I tried to cleanup tons of projects on our stage with a toy script

#! /bin/python3

import os
import sys
from copr.v3.pagination import next_page
from copr.v3 import Client


def _main():
    # Create an API client from config file
    config = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".config", sys.argv[1])

    print(f"Loading config: {config}")
    client = Client.create_from_config_file(path=config)

    owners = ["praiskup", "@copr"]

    for owner in owners:
        # Create a new project
        package_page = client.project_proxy.get_list(ownername=owner, pagination={"limit": 30})

        while package_page:
            for project in package_page:
                if "TEST" in project.name or "testmodule" in project.name:
                    print(f" DELETE: {owner}/{project.name}")
                    client.project_proxy.delete(owner, project.name)
                else:
                    print(f" no action: {owner}/{project.name}")
            package_page = next_page(package_page)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    _main()

Without creating new projects, I have to restart the script over and over, because it quits without removal of all the candidates:

$ copr-clean-projects copr
...
 DELETE: praiskup/module-testmodule-beakertest-20231130101020
 DELETE: praiskup/TEST1701339404695068111ExclusiveArch
 DELETE: praiskup/module-testmodulev2-beakertest-20231130101657
 DELETE: praiskup/module-testmodulev2-beakertest-20231130123819
 no action: @copr/test-mail
$ copr-clean-projects copr
...
 DELETE: praiskup/TEST1701249625504960770Project6
 DELETE: praiskup/TEST1701249625504960770Project7
 no action: @copr/test-mail
$ copr-clean-projects copr
...

[praiskup]

One thing is that we skip many projects from the first owner (praiskup) but we skip immediately after going to the next owner (@copr). Edit: no, partly a false alarm, @copr only has a single project.

[nikromen]

triage: document this behavior instead of fixing it