carbonserver: introduce new api /metrics/list_query #435
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The api call allows us to query metrics under a namespace query. Unlike /metrics/find, it would
traverse down the matched namespaces and returns all the metrics within them.
It is created to enable management tools to check how many metrics are within matched namespaces,
how big are they physically or logically, etc.
Currently only json payload is supported. I am postponing adding protobuf support as I am
not sure how far the api could go.
A few usage examples: