[Engine-devel] ovirtSDK: ObjectsFactory would bring ability to customize objects

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/14/2012 02:57 PM, Jaroslav Henner wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'm an automation tester in charge of testing SDK, my problem is that I
> cannot influence the objects that are created without so called "monkey
> patching" (google that and you will see what it means) the
> ovirtsdk.infrastructure.brokers.*. I made some comments about this
> #782891, but I was not so clear there, so I hope this will be better:
>
>
> In [12]: api.datacenters.list()[0]
> Out[12]: <ovirtsdk.infrastructure.brokers.DataCenter at 0x1a62890>
>
> You see that this returns an object that was declared somewhere in SDK.
> We have AFAIK no good way to say which object should be created.
>
> It would be good for us to be able to tell SDK:
> "
> My dear SDK, every time you are asked, please don't create and give me
> ovirtsdk.infrastructure.brokers.DataCenter, but something very similar:
> our.tests.infrastructure.brokers.DataCenter
> "

I'm not sure i understand - you want the SDK to return an object from a 
class it does not know (i.e., the SDK to return an object from your class)?
how will this look like if the SDK was in another language (say java)?