Re: [Engine-devel] restapi: New params for import VM/Template
On 05/17/2012 09:43 AM, Livnat Peer wrote:
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> Going FW it would be nice to override parameters in import vm/template
I agree with you and that's why -
As a user I don't think there should be a difference in the API between:
- Importing a VM and changing it's name
- Importing a VM for the second time
The reason you want to add artificial difference between the two
scenarios above is because currently there are implementations
limitations (changing the image ID while importing is not supported yet)
I think that we should solve the limitations in the implementation
instead of making our API cumbersome (implicit clone by name and adding
some clone entity are both bad IMO).
1. please read carefully my previous email with pseudocode on this thread
(it also works for if_exist by id), it's enabling parameters override and
it's not /implicit clone by name/, but explicit error when clone is required.
2. the solution i suggested is in engine and not api.
Livnat
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Michael Pasternak
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