Re: [ovirt-users] Integration of ovirt-engine GUI with the CLI

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Nikita Kodkani" <nikita.kodkani(a)gmail.com&gt; > Cc: "users" <Users(a)ovirt.org&gt;, "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com&gt; > Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 12:37:21 AM > Subject: Re: Fwd: [ovirt-users] Integration of ovirt-engine GUI with the CLI > > On 11/04/2014 01:54 PM, Nikita Kodkani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To add further... >> I read it somewhere on google, that to execute the shell commands in the >> JavaScript we have to use node.js at the backend. >> >> We don't want to spend time on learning the technology in this time frame. >> >> -Does ovirt-engine provide API's for executing the shell commands? > > its the other way around - the cli/shell commands are using the engine > python-sdk, which uses the engine REST API. > > if your solution is html/javascript based, i think using ovirt.js (which > wraps calling to the engine rest api 'nicely', vs. you doing it yourself > from your code) is the way to go. Exactly, the main use case for oVirtJS is to allow working with Engine from within a JavaScript environment. HTML/JS web application is the primary use case, we also plan to support "server-side JS code running on Node.js" as another use case, so that people can potentially write custom server-side JS to work with Engine.

> > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/025198.html > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Design/Using_REST_API_In_Web_UI > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-August/008502.html > http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20140819/a35caa44/atta... > > >> >> >> Thanks, >> Nikita >> >> Nikita Kodkani >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com >> <mailto:iheim@redhat.com>> wrote: >> >> On 11/04/2014 11:47 AM, Nikita Kodkani wrote: >> >> It is designed in javascript/HTML. We had initially designed some >> feature using CLI. But now we just want to execute command when >> we hit >> the button/tab. >> >> >> vojtech - sounds like ovirt.js could be the best fit here? >> >> -Nikita >> >> i >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com >> <mailto:iheim@redhat.com> >> <mailto:iheim@redhat.com <mailto:iheim@redhat.com>>> wrote: >> >> On 11/04/2014 06:30 AM, Nikita Kodkani wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have the CLI designed for the RHEV-M. I have also >> designed >> some GUI in >> ovirt-engine. >> Now I am stuckup with the integration. Could you >> suggest how to >> connect >> the ovirt-engine GUI with the backend CLI commands? >> >> >> which language is your gui? >> why use the CLI instead of the python or java SDKs >> (or ruby or javascript ones) >> >> >> >> >> > >