8:41 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen(a)redhat.com>
To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek(a)redhat.com>, "Vojtech Szocs"
<vszocs(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>, "Michael
Pasternak" <mpastern(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 6:01:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [Spice-devel] SPICE Foreign Menu Using REST
Hi Tomas,
> Yes, we can provide the sessionId to authenticate with the REST and the vm
> guid is not a problem.
Note that in the web-admin, we already have code that generates REST API
session-ID;
this code is being utilized in the ui-plugins infrastructure to allow the
different
ui-plugins to communicate with the rest api.
[one related file is this context is RestApiSessionManager.java in the
web-admin, not
sure if there are others]
Yes, I'm aware of that. This is what I had in mind when was talking about passing the
SessionId to SPICE.
maybe the RestApiSessionManager(?) can somehow be utilized for the SPICE
purpose as well
(I guess that it will require a couple of code-changes though, and maybe
worth moving it
to gwt-common, to allow its utilization from the user portal as well?) -
@Vojtech would
probably know best to advise on this.
* Note: Today:
(a) a *single* REST API session-ID is generated and used across all
ui-plugins in the system
(upon user login to the web-admin).
(b) this REST-API session-ID is generated based on the *same credentials*
with which the user
logged into the web-admin.
both (a) and (b) will change once [1] will be addressed.
Thank you for mentioning this! I was not aware of this RFE. IIUC the RFE addresses only
UIPlugins with their metadata so in order to integrate this with the SPICE we nee to
either
enrich the RFE or to create a UIPlugin which will start the SPICE. I would vote for the
second option.
What others?
Only for the SPICE case in particular - I think that (b) should
remain. so
Why only for SPICE? I can imagine UIPlugins which could make use of this option.
maybe worth allowing
both same-credentials-login and different-credentials-login in the
REST-API-Session-ID-generation
code in the GUI.
This option might make sense also for other UIPlugins so maybe the SPICE integration will
not be anything special, just a UIPlugin.
----
Thanks,
Einav
[1] Bug 962863 - RFE: Improve REST API integration for UI Plugins
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962863
some of the planned changes (from the BZ description):
"""
...
- each UI plugin will have its own dedicated REST API session, unrelated to
GUI (admin)
user credentials
...
"""
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek(a)redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:50:31 AM
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christophe Fergeau" <cfergeau(a)redhat.com>
> > To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek(a)redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek(a)redhat.com>,
"Itamar Heim"
> > <iheim(a)redhat.com>,
> > spice-devel(a)lists.freedesktop.org, "engine-devel"
> > <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>,
> > "Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau(a)redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 11:30:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] [Spice-devel] SPICE Foreign Menu Using REST
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 05:21:11AM -0400, Tomas Jelinek wrote:
> > > well, it seems that everyone agree that the decision what to add to the
> > > menu is the client responsibility. It means there is no additional work
> > > needed on the
> > > oVirt engine side - going to remove the feature page.
> >
> > If we go the REST API way to handle foreign menu, we need additional info
> > in the .vv files: some way to auth with the REST API, and the guid of the
> > VM to act on.
> Yes, we can provide the sessionId to authenticate with the REST and the vm
> guid is not a problem.
>
> >
> > Christophe
> >
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