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

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/

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

----- 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 > >