Re: [ovirt-users] Help with REST api and json examples

On 06/23/2015 02:49 PM, Scott Miller wrote: Should be something like this (using curl): ---8<--- #!/bin/sh -ex url="https://engine.example.com/ovirt-engine/api" user="admin@internal" password="..." curl \ --insecure \ --user "${user}:${password}" \ --request POST \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --header "Accept: application/json" \ --data ' { "name": "scott_test", "cluster": { "name": "LabRDU" }, "template": { "name": "CentOS-6.6-RDU" } } ' \ "${url}/vms" --->8--- Note that in the JSON document you don't need a wrapping "vm" element, and that the names of the cluster and the template are inner elements. When in doubt you can obtain examples from the RESTAPI itself. For example, if you want to see how a VM is represented using JSON go to a URL like this in your browser: https://.../ovirt-engine/api/vms/the-id-of-the-vm?accept=application/json -- 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.