[Engine-devel] Improvement for the oVirt java sdk

[Morrissey, Christopher]

-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.

> 
> >
> > -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
> 
> 
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> 
> Michael Pasternak
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