[ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/29/2014 09:25 AM, Nir Soffer wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tony James" <tony at anthonyjames.org>
>> To: devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 3:30:49 AM
>> Subject: [ovirt-devel] UI Plugin to Upload ISO Files
>>
>> This message is in response to an earlier thread regarding a UI plugin
>> to upload ISO files.  Like the original poster, Lucas, I began work on
>> a UI plugin to allow uploading ISO files through a UI plugin.  After
>> reading the previous thread I'm re-thinking the architecture.
>>
>> It was suggested that the recommended approach to upload files to a
>> storage domain is through the VDSM API [1].  I'm pretty familiar with
>> the oVirt REST API but have been unable to find documentation
>> regarding accessing the VDSM API.  Should the VDSM API be accessible
>> by a UI plugin? If so, is there documentation available to do so?
>>
>> [1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-December/009497.html
>
> Basically you have to:
> 1. Use the vdsm xmlrpc/jsonrpc to create an image
> 2. Use the vdsm http api to upload the data to the image. This will create
>     a task and return a task id.
> 3. Use the vdsm xmlrpc/jsonrpc api to check the task status, and clear
>     the task when done
>
> The xmlrpc/jsonrpc api is documented here:
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=blob;f=vdsm/rpc/vdsmapi-schema.json;h=1edcda86c8468b68c620eff4844b57ca30e44ea7;hb=HEAD
>
> You can check the code for upload here:
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=blob;f=vdsm/rpc/BindingXMLRPC.py;h=759ed7845e63658a13c139684095bd56c03a29ac;hb=HEAD#l158

I assume the upload will be done via a servlet on the engine, not 
directly by the ui plugin accessing vdsm.
worth discussing your plans here, to make sure architecture/security are 
correct.