[Engine-devel] Improvement for the oVirt java sdk

[Michael Pasternak]

On 03/07/2013 04:53 PM, Morrissey, Christopher wrote:
> 
> -Chris
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Pasternak [mailto:mpastern at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:37 AM
>> To: Morrissey, Christopher
>> Cc: users at ovirt.org; engine-devel
>> Subject: Re: Improvement for the oVirt java sdk
>>
>> 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
> 
> Thanks for the very quick implementation! I'll give it a try shortly.

here [1] is wiki for this change.

[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Java-sdk#Authenticating_using_sessionid

> 
>>
>>>
>>> -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
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael Pasternak
>> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D


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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D