[ovirt-devel] [VDSM][JSON RPC] new vdsClient?

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>
> To: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, 14 November, 2014 6:34:57 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] [VDSM][JSON RPC] new vdsClient?
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> the recent JSONRPC discussion and my last work around vdsClient reminded me
> that
> since a long time there it was vague plans for a vdsClient overhaul
> 
> or at least I haven't ever found a detailed plan :)
> 
> Since we have to add jsonrpc support anyway, it could be a good chance to
> bootstrap
> a new vdsClient, and incrementally enhance it as needs arises; the old
> vdsClient will
> not go away very soon, I guess.
> 
> At least, we can to put together a wishlist for a new vdsClient and add it to
> the wiki.
> 
> My one, so far:
> * client library package: we should have a program-friendly python package to
> access
>   VDSM, in order
> * JSON for input: I's like to open logs, grab a line including a command and
> feed
>   vdsClient with the very same line

Currently we don't see commands json input in the logs, but this can be a good
idea (in debug mode).

+1

JSON for output: current vdsClient format replies in a mix of text and json. We
need to print the json returned from vdsm as is.

Nir