[Engine-devel] Getting Hosts in a Data Center using the oVirt API

[Schoenbrun, Dustin]

Hey Michael,

That's really helpful! I didn't know you could use queries like in the
search bar within the API. Thanks for the help!

-- Dustin






On 7/24/13 1:44 AM, "Michael Pasternak" <mpastern at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>Hi Dustin,
>
>On 07/24/2013 01:35 AM, Schoenbrun, Dustin wrote:
>> Hey Michael,
>> 
>> I had a question about what the best way of getting all hosts within a
>>data center was using the oVirt Java API. Currently, we've been doing a
>>"reverse lookup" from all
>> hosts present in the oVirt Engine to see what clusters they're in and
>>then finding out what data center the cluster belongs to. Thanks in
>>advance, Michael!
>
>Almost all root collections (such as hosts in your case), supports
>querying using
>very same engine search dialect, so actually you can go to UI, combine
>query,
>(use auto-completion) and use it in SDK, e.g:
>
>List<Host> hosts = api.getHosts().list("datacenter = mydatacenter", null,
>null);
>
>hope it helps.
>
>> 
>> -- Dustin
>> 
>
>
>-- 
>
>Michael Pasternak
>RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D