[Engine-devel] [Spice-devel] SPICE Foreign Menu Using REST

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/20/2013 02:07 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey Itamar,
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 06:00:47PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 06/19/2013 04:33 PM, Tomas Jelinek wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> for the non plugin invocation of the console (http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Non_plugin_console_invocation) the dynamicMenu property is not usable to enrich the SPICE client menu.
>>>
>>> This feature is about requesting this menu using oVirt's REST API and than calling it back once some item from this menu has been selected.
>>>
>>> The oVirt's feature page with specific details: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Foreign_Menu_Using_REST
>>>
>>> Any comments are more than welcomed.
>>
>> Why are we putting the logic of the menu into the REST API?
>> can't the menu be builded by client based on getting the list of
>> ISO's and current CD?
>
> The client needs a way to get the list of available ISOs in order to build
> the menu, as well as a way to let the engine know when the user clicked on
> an ISO in the menu. One way of doing that is to have the menu stuff exposed
> in the REST API. Another way would be to expose the list of ISOs in the
> REST API (I'd have a slight preference for that I think).

that's my preference as well, and the REST API should already do that today:
- get list of ISOs of available in a DC (the one the VM is in)
- ability to change the CD of the VM

> Or do you have anything in mind for the client to get the list of ISOs
> available to the engine?

my preference is to provide the data, not the semantics of the menu.
iiuc, we are on the same page.

>
> Christophe
>