On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Piotr Kliczewski <piotr.kliczewski@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Piotr Kliczewski
> <piotr.kliczewski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I pushed very simple jsonrpc go client [1] which allows to talk to
>> vdsm. I had a request to create it but if there are more people
>> willing to use it I am happy to maintain it.

Awesome Piotr!  Thanks for the great work.
 
>>
>> Please let me know if you find any issues with it or you have any
>> feature requests.
>
> Interesting. Which use case do you see for this client?
> Currently, Vdsm has very few clients: Engine, vdsm-client, mom and
> hosted-engine. Too often we forget about the non-Engine ones and break
> them, so I'd be happy to learn more about a 5th.

Adam asked for the client for his storage related changes. I am not
sure about specific use case.

I am looking at implementing a vdsm flexvol driver for kubernetes.  This would allow kubernetes pods to access vdsm volumes using the native PV and PVC mechanisms.
 

>
> Regarding https://github.com/pkliczewski/vdsm-jsonrpc-go/blob/master/example/main.go
> : programming without exceptions and try-except is a pain. don't you
> need to check the retval of Subscribe and disconnect on failure?

By no means example is not perfect and you are correct. I will fix.



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Adam Litke