On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 11:34:18AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
Hi everyone. On today's VDSM call we discussed the requirements, design, and plan for updating the API to include support for QMF and single-host REST API. All members present arrived at a general consensus on the best way to design the next-generation API. I have tried to capture this discussion in the oVirt wiki:
http://ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_API
Please take a look at this page and let's discuss any changes that may be needed in order to adopt it as a working plan that we can begin to execute. Thanks!
Very nice, I've fixed two bullets about the future of the xml-rpc. I think that we are missing something here: how do we model Vdsm-to-Vdsm communication, in a binding-blind way? I'm less worried about the storage-based mailbox used for lvextend requests: my problem is with migration command. Currently, the implementation of the "migrate" verb includes contacting the remote Vdsm over xml-rpc before issuing the libvirt migrateToURI2 command ('migrationCreate' verb). A Vdsm user who choose to use the REST binding, is likely to want this to be implemented this using a REST request to the destination. This means that the implementation of Vdsm depends on the chosen binding. The issue can be mitigating by requiring the binding level to provide a "callback" for migrationCreate (and any other future Vdsm->world requests). This would complicate the beautiful png at http://ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_API#Design ... Does anyone have another suggestion? Dan.