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] 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. Only for the SPICE case in particular - I think that (b) should remain. so maybe worth allowing both same-credentials-login and different-credentials-login in the REST-API-Session-ID-generation code in the GUI. ---- 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@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:50:31 AM
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From: "Christophe Fergeau" <cfergeau@redhat.com> To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek@redhat.com> Cc: "Michal Skrivanek" <michal.skrivanek@redhat.com>, "Itamar Heim" <iheim@redhat.com>, spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, "engine-devel" <engine-devel@ovirt.org>, "Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau@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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