Re: [Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Upload and download image for OOTB storage pool

On 07/01/2014 12:19 AM, Royce Lv wrote: > Now OOTB ISO pool is available, but user has to copy ISO manually to > the ISO pool, which is not convenient. > So here we propose two ways to transfer ISOs. > > 1. User ---upload --> Kimchi Server > > REST API will be: > > POST /storagepools/isos/upload > {'file': file_local_abs_path} > > Ding Xiao had already posted a piece of code in his patch: > > using cherrypy file upload interface. His code can support following > requirements: > (1) upload task can be cancelled. > (2) non-blocking, other request can be handled. > (3) progress can be monitored with a progress bar. > (4) multi-file selected support. > > Only nits are UI part needs to be refactored a little. > > Also for multiple file upload, number of upload session needs to be > controlled through config file. > ACK for the idea Just a comment: Regarding to Ding Xiao patches, he added the upload function to the add template UI But it only upload the image to Kimchi server and does not create a template from the uploaded ISO If we will keep it on add template UI, we must do the whole process: upload the ISO and also create a template from this ISO file. > 2. Http server -- download -->Kimchi server > > REST API will be: > > POST /storagepools/isos/download > {'file': file_remote_path} > > RETURN: > {'task_id': id_of_download_task} > > This will start a backend task for download. The UI will query the > task for progress. > > For implementation, we will use python libcurl to download image/ISO. > REF: > http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/python/ > > ACK > > > _______________________________________________ > Kimchi-devel mailing list > Kimchi-devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/kimchi-devel >