[Engine-devel] API design and plan

[Adam Litke]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:48:53AM +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 07:34 PM, Adam Litke wrote:
> >Hi everyone.  On today's VDSM call we discussed the requirements, design, and
> >plan for updating the API to include support for QMF and single-host REST API.
> >All members present arrived at a general consensus on the best way to design the
> >next-generation API.  I have tried to capture this discussion in the oVirt wiki:
> >
> >      http://ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_API
> >
> >Please take a look at this page and let's discuss any changes that may be needed
> >in order to adopt it as a working plan that we can begin to execute.  Thanks!
> >
> 
> as you are going to plan an api...
> This piece by Geert Jansen summarizes lessons learned from the
> RHEV-M (ovirt) REST API project
> https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/rhevm-api/2011-August/002714.html

Thanks for the link!  This is proving to be a very insightful read.  I am
finding that I have come to many of these same conclusions in my own way as I
have been desigining the API (especially regarding the use of JSON over XML).

-- 
Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center