Re: [Users] Fwd: oVirt UI plugins feature announcements

----- Original Message ----- > From: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.koch(a)ovido.at&gt; > To: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Friday, November 8, 2013 10:32:24 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] Fwd: oVirt UI plugins feature announcements > > On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 17:24 -0500, Vojtech Szocs wrote: > > Hi guys, sharing some updates on oVirt UI plugins feature, see below for > > details. > > > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > > > Vojtech > > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > > From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs(a)redhat.com&gt; > > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org&gt; > > Cc: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > > Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:21:21 PM > > Subject: oVirt UI plugins feature announcements > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'd like to share some important updates on oVirt UI plugins feature. > > > > First of all, UI plugins wiki [1] is finally complete. API reference > > (application events, API functions, API options, entity types) now > > includes all the details and snippets of example code. I've also added > > section "Why load plugins via iframe element?" explaining reasons behind > > this design decision. > > > > [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/UIPlugins > > > Great! Thanks a lot for the documentation - this makes life much easier! > > > > > > You might have noticed the changes in oVirt Engine URI layout [2], these > > are already reflected in UI plugins wiki. For existing plugins, this means > > changing URLs like this: > > > > /webadmin/webadmin/plugin/ExamplePlugin/start.html > > > > to this: > > > > /ovirt-engine/webadmin/plugin/ExamplePlugin/start.html > > > > [2] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/20473/ > > > Which version of oVirt uses the new URI - I assume 3.4? (and do you know > if the URI will be changed in RHEV as well)? Correct, new URI layout takes effect in oVirt 3.4, not sure about RHEV but I think "ovirt-engine" in URI might change there.

> > I think it's important to mention this change in oVirt upgrade/release > notes to let users know that they have to change the UI plugin URI. When > packaging an UI plugin it's not a problem to check the oVirt version in > a %post section and run a sed command over the JSON file... I assume the URI layout change BZ [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/961677] will have some release notes attached. For UI plugins, I was talking with Alon about this, we could promote the use of relative URIs to make UI plugins unaware of absolute URI layout. For example, in plugin descriptor: "url": "plugin/ExamplePlugin/start.html" // relative to WebAdmin base context path, i.e. /ovirt-engine/webadmin would result in: <iframe src="plugin/ExamplePlugin/start.html"> custom content could be added like this: api.addMainTab('Example Tab', 'example-tab', 'plugin/ExamplePlugin/tab.html'); and any content within the iframe (either start.html or tab.html) could use: <script src="dir-relative-to-plugin-resources/custom-script.js"> <link href="dir-relative-to-plugin-resources/custom-stylesheet.css"> I'll verify this and update the UI plugins wiki accordingly. Should have thought about relative URIs in the first place :)

> > > I also have a question (not related to this topic) too: > In webadmin I select e.g. a vm and click on Disks webadmin displays disk > details for this vm. When selecting another vm I can see the disk infos > for this vm (webadmin keeps me in Disks subtab which is what I would > expect). > When I click on Monitoring Details (which is a subtab created by my > monitoring UI plugin) and I select another vm webadmin doesn't show me > the content of the ui plugin subtab (Monitoring Details) but instead the > Disks subtab (always the last clicked non-ui-plugin subtab). > Didn't test in in oVirt 3.3 yet, only in oVirt 3.2 and RHEV 3.2... > Is it possible to let subtabs created by ui pugins behave in the same > way as subtabs provided by webadmin? Right, this is a known issue with dynamic sub tabs. I've created RFE BZ [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1028968] to track this issue.

Thanks for your feedback! > > > Regards, > René > > > > > > We're planning to merge patch "Improve UI Plugin vs. REST API integration" > > [http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/20404/] soon, please review the change > > outlined in commit message, let me know if you have any questions. > > > > Last but not least, oVirt Space Shooter (a.k.a UI plugins crash course) > > wiki [3] has been updated to reflect changes mentioned above. > > > > [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Tutorial/UIPlugins/CrashCourse > > > > Regards, > > Vojtech > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users(a)ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >