Re: [Engine-devel] Tweaking backup/restore of engine

On 03/04/2014 09:38 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote: Using the RESTAPI without repeated login/logout is already supported, and it is what the SDKs do by default. In order to use it you need to add the "Prefer: persistent-auth" header to the HTTP request, and keep track of the cookies returned by the engine. For, example, the following example sends events to the engine, without repeatedly performing the login process: #!/bin/sh -x # The details to connect to the engine: url="https://whatever/ovirt-engine/api" user="admin@internal" password="****" # The file where we store the cookies, including the # session id: cookies="cookies.txt" curl \ --insecure \ --request POST \ --header "Accept: application/xml" \ --header "Content-Type: application/xml" \ --header "Prefer: persistent-auth" \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ --cookie "${cookies}" \ --cookie-jar "${cookies}" \ --data " <event> <origin>myorigin</origin> <severity>normal</severity> <description>Something from me</description> <custom_id>$(date +%s)</custom_id> </event> " \ ${url}/events This will keep a session alive in the server. If you want to explicitly close it just send an additional request, with the same cookies and without the "Prefer" header. It is described in more detail here: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/RESTSessionManagement -- Dirección Comercial: C/Jose Bardasano Baos, 9, Edif. Gorbea 3, planta 3ºD, 28016 Madrid, Spain Inscrita en el Reg. Mercantil de Madrid – C.I.F. B82657941 - Red Hat S.L.