Re: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files
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From: "Tony James" <tony(a)anthonyjames.org>
To: devel(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 3:30:49 AM
Subject: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files
This message is in response to an earlier thread regarding a UI plugin
to upload ISO files. Like the original poster, Lucas, I began work on
a UI plugin to allow uploading ISO files through a UI plugin. After
reading the previous thread I'm re-thinking the architecture.
It was suggested that the recommended approach to upload files to a
storage domain is through the VDSM API [1]. I'm pretty familiar with
the oVirt REST API but have been unable to find documentation
regarding accessing the VDSM API. Should the VDSM API be accessible
by a UI plugin? If so, is there documentation available to do so?
[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-December/009497.html
Basically you have to:
1. Use the vdsm xmlrpc/jsonrpc to create an image
2. Use the vdsm http api to upload the data to the image. This will create
a task and return a task id.
3. Use the vdsm xmlrpc/jsonrpc api to check the task status, and clear
the task when done
The xmlrpc/jsonrpc api is documented here:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=blob;f=vdsm/rpc/vdsmapi-schem...
You can check the code for upload here:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=blob;f=vdsm/rpc/BindingXMLRPC...
Nir