Request for Feedback on Governance: list_neurons pagination API

[dfxjesse]

Again, I’d like to push for list_neurons to support searching by subaccounts. As I did here:

@dfxjesse

Clients can compute their own neuron subaccounts, like principal + nonce, nonce can be a simple incrementing number and you can easily query certain neurons if list_neurons supported subaccounts like all the other endpoints do.

There could be a new method list_neurons_by_id_or_subaccount or there could be an optional value in the current list_neurons method like neuron_ids_or_subaccounts.

This would also be beneficial for clients that have many neurons and they can do their own pagination by grabbing nonces, computing the subaccount and popping them into the neuron_ids_or_subaccounts array.

In this new pagination design, lets say I have over 500 neurons and I need to list certain neurons from different pages I would need to perform multiple async calls to get that information and list all my neurons. If I could search by subaccount I can compute those myself and search for specifically what I want in one call.

These things will become more relevant as more and more canisters start to offer staking to many thousands of users. Just using the current neuron numbers are not a good justification in my opinion.