[Users] UI Plugin issue when switching main tabs

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Wed Jan 23 12:32:49 UTC 2013


On 22/01/2013 14:06, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "René Koch" <r.koch at ovido.at>
>> To: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:51:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] UI Plugin issue when switching main tabs
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your input - it was really helpfu!
>>
>> I added a check for argument.length and now it's working as expected.
>> The working code is:
>>
>>      VirtualMachineSelectionChange: function() {
>>        if (arguments.length == 1) {
>> 	var vmName = arguments[0].name;
>> alert(vmName);
>> 	// Reload VM Sub Tab
>> 	api.setTabContentUrl('vms-monitoring', conf.url +
>> 	'?subtab=vms&name=' + encodeURIComponent(vmName));
>>        }
>>      }
>>
>>
>> Btw, do you know if I can get the name of a host instead the
>> hostname/ip?
>> arguments[0].name; gives me the IP address (value of webadmin column
>> "hostname/ip") but not the name (column "name") - (I always use ips
>> instead of dns names for hypervisors)...
>>
> I don't think you can currently do that.
> The plan is to expose all the attributes of the entity that are exposed via REST, also in the plugin api, but currently that's not the case.
> Not sure why it doesn't return the name itself (don't know if it is a bug, or it is "as designed"), but anyway, other properties will be exposed in the future.

but it sounds like a bug in the mapping of id/name for the current 
uiplugin infra (maybe vojtech mapped the wrong field).
assuming restapi returns host name for the name field, uiplugin should 
return it as well.

>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> René
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original message-----
>>> From:Oved Ourfalli <ovedo at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday 22nd January 2013 19:34
>>> To: René Koch <r.koch at ovido.at>
>>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] UI Plugin issue when switching main tabs
>>>
>>> Found your bug (I think):
>>> You don't check in your code whether there is a selection (if
>>> (arguments.length == 1) for example, if you want to act only when
>>> one is selected).
>>>
>>> You'll probably want to do similar logic to the Foreman plugin,
>>> setting the sub-tab content URL only in case one VM is selected,
>>> and setting the URL properly.
>>>
>>> The fact that your alert won't show is that you call
>>> arguments[0].name, and it fails when nothing is selected... and I
>>> guess that's the case when you switch tabs.
>>> Didn't check it out, but please check it out... and let me know
>>> what you found :-)
>>>
>>> Oved
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "René Koch" <r.koch at ovido.at>
>>>> To: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 6:05:47 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Users] UI Plugin issue when switching main tabs
>>>>
>>>> When switching back to vm main tab changing the selection doesn't
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> No matter which VM I select the VirtualMachineSelectionChange
>>>> function isn't called again (as my debug alert window doesn't
>>>> appear), but the last vm I selected before switching to another
>>>> main
>>>> tab is cached in variable vmName...
>>>> It works again after restarting engine-service.
>>>>
>>>> I just tested your foreman plugin and it seems that this one is
>>>> working as expected.
>>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> René
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original message-----
>>>>> From:Oved Ourfalli <ovedo at redhat.com>
>>>>> Sent: Monday 21st January 2013 14:56
>>>>> To: René Koch <r.koch at ovido.at>
>>>>> Cc: users at ovirt.org; Vojtech Szocs <vszocs at redhat.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Users] UI Plugin issue when switching main tabs
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll let Vojtech (cc-ed) to give a more accurate answer, but,
>>>>> trying to narrow down the issue: when you switch to a different
>>>>> main tab and then back to the VM main tab, and change the
>>>>> selection in there, does it work?
>>>>> (Trying to understand if the problem is only when doing the
>>>>> switch,
>>>>> and it works afterwards, or not).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Oved
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "René Koch" <r.koch at ovido.at>
>>>>>> To: users at ovirt.org
>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:07:13 PM
>>>>>> Subject: [Users] UI Plugin issue when switching main tabs
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm working on an UI plugin to integrate Nagios/Icinga into
>>>>>> oVirt
>>>>>> Engine and made some progress, but have an issue when
>>>>>> switching
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> main tabs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I use VirtualMachineSelectionChange to create URL with name
>>>>>> of vm
>>>>>> (and HostSelectionChange for hosts).
>>>>>> Name is used in my backend code (Perl) for fetching
>>>>>> monitoring
>>>>>> status.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's the code of VirtualMachineSelectionChange:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      VirtualMachineSelectionChange: function() {
>>>>>>          var vmName = arguments[0].name;
>>>>>>          alert(vmName);
>>>>>>          // Reload VM Sub Tab
>>>>>>          api.setTabContentUrl('vms-monitoring', conf.url +
>>>>>>          '?subtab=vms&name=' + encodeURIComponent(vmName));
>>>>>>      }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Everything works fine as long as I stay in Virtual Machine
>>>>>> main
>>>>>> tab.
>>>>>> When switching to e.g. Disks and back to Virtual Machines
>>>>>> again
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> JavaScript code of start.html isn't processed anymore (or
>>>>>> cached
>>>>>> (?)
>>>>>> as the my generated URL with last vm name will still be sent
>>>>>> back
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> my Perl backend) - added alert() to test this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> oVirt Engine version:
>>>>>> ovirt-engine-3.2.0-1.20130118.gitd102d6f.fc18.noarch
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Full code of start.hml: http://pastebin.com/iEY6dA6F
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for your help,
>>>>>> René
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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