[Engine-devel] Improvement for the oVirt java sdk

[Michael Pasternak]

On 03/04/2013 05:26 PM, Morrissey, Christopher wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Yes, that is the case here. I'm getting the JSESSIONID from the client and passing it to our server 
> so that it can perform REST-API calls back to oVirt under the logged in user's authenticated session.

done, see http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-March/012969.html

> 
> -Chris
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Pasternak [mailto:mpastern at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 4:44 AM
>> To: Morrissey, Christopher
>> Cc: users at ovirt.org; engine-devel
>> Subject: Re: Improvement for the oVirt java sdk
>>
>>
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> In general SDK abstracts the transport layer, therefore all authentication
>> internals hidden from the user,
>>
>> i.e SESSION based authentication happens implicitly (by default), when you
>> initiate SDK entry point,
>>
>> the story is different if you want using SSO-like login by reusing JSESSIONID
>> from the REST-API for instance, and i can support such scenario,
>>
>> but, is this your case?
>>
>> On 02/28/2013 10:04 PM, Morrissey, Christopher wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> I'm looking to use the oVirt java sdk for connecting into oVirt from
>>> our server. However, we have a UI plugin that gets access to a session
>>> ID that we should be able to use to connect through the REST API
>>> instead of the username and password. Any chance the sdk could be
>> updated to take the session ID and create a connection vs. a user name and
>> password?
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>> Chris Morrissey
>>> Software Engineer
>>> NetApp Inc.
>>> 919.476.4428
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael Pasternak
>> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D


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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D