[Engine-devel] oVirt UI Plugins feature: Ready for review

[Costea, George]

Hi Vojtech,

I have a few questions on this feature.

1) Are the plugins hosted by the same jboss server that hosts the engine?  It would appear the answer is yes and that no separate container is required for the plugins.
2) Does each plugin map to a unique extension within WebAdmin?  Your example shows that I can extend the VM table to have a "Show VM name and edit VM" context-sensitive extension.  This is named pluginApi.plugins.myPlugin.  Can I safely assume that this is per extension?  I would have pluginApi.plugins.myPlugin2 for extending a storage domain?
3) Instead of launching a jQuery dialog, can I point to a compiled GWT html file to display a dialog that fits my needs?
4) Is session info passed into the plugin so that I can invoke APIs into the engine?  To power on a VM for instance?  Or to mount a new NFS storage domain?

BTW, the link to the original design notes on the wiki doesn't work.

Thanks,
George

-----Original Message-----
From: Vojtech Szocs [mailto:vszocs at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:03 AM
To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
Cc: Schoenbrun, Dustin; Costea, George; Hopper, Ricky
Subject: oVirt UI Plugins feature: Ready for review

Hi guys,

I wrote a wiki page describing UI Plugins, a feature planned for oVirt web administration (WebAdmin) application:
http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/UIPlugins

Feature design is finished and ready for review. Please feel free to add comments, ask questions or reach me directly on #ovirt channel.

Cheers,
Vojtech