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From: "Tony James" <tony@anthonyjames.org> To: devel@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-schema.j... You can check the code for upload here: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=blob;f=vdsm/rpc/BindingXMLRPC.py... Nir