goal, single API command that matches and set parameters on multiple items

A couple of example commands that I want to work, but don't...

/radius/set
=src-address=1.2.3.4
?service=PPP

/queue/tree/set
=limit-at=1000
=max-limit=10000
?parent=ParentQueue


Any idea how to do this without first doing something like this and getting all the IDs listed:
/radius/print
=.proplist=.id
?service=PPP

then looping through the results and running something that looks like this (non denominational psudo code syntax):

For Each $ID In IDlist

/radius/set
=src-address=1.2.3.4
=.id=$ID

Next

executing one API command to update a group of settings is clearly more efficient than the way shown that I've actually gotten to work, particularly when there may be 50-100 IDs to update on some of the loops that I run through.

Even in CLI, you need two commands. Just because you write them on a single line doesn't mean there aren't two of them being executed.

In CLI, you use which first does "/queue tree find where parent=ParentQueue" and then gives the return value of that to the "numbers" argument at "/queue tree set".

It's the same thing with the API, but more explicit.

If, in the future, you could do from CLI that's when will become valid, and equivalent of that.

(That's a feature request for MikroTik though)


Some API clients, like the one from my signature, try to abstract this away so that from the outside, it feels like a single call, but on a protocol level, it just can't be done. RouterOS itself doesn't support that.