[Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks

[Vojtech Szocs]

Hi Daniel,

this plugin looks very cool!

I'm starting to realize that CGI scripts are quite handy for implementing any sort of server-side logic for UI plugins, especially since we have Apache web server in front of JBoss application server (Engine) in standard oVirt installation.

Looking at the code, this plugin should work fine with oVirt 3.2.1+ since showDialog API changes landed into 3.2.1 release.

Regarding the issue with bad dialog content - you can edit start.html and put following code right before api.showDialog call:

    window.alert(url);

This will show actual dialog content URL - you can try opening this URL normally in browser and see what happens. My guess is that it will show same thing as the dialog.

Important thing is, this URL points to *selected host* machine (not Engine), i.e. http://<hostAddress>/cgi-bin/ui-vdsm-hooks/ui-vdsm-hooks.cgi?command=<cmd>&args=<args>

This means selected host machine should have some web server like Apache installed with necessary CGI scripts in place, i.e. cgi-bin/ui-vdsm-hooks/ui-vdsm-hooks.cgi + cgi-bin/ui-vdsm-hooks/scripts/vdsClientApi.py -> CGI scripts are invoked right on given host machine.

Michael, René - can you try ^^ and let us know if you still encounter issues with bad dialog content? What happens when you manually open dialog content URL in browser?

Regards,
Vojtech


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>
> To: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.koch at ovido.at>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 8:45:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.koch at ovido.at>
> > To: "Michael Wagenknecht" <Wagenknecht at FuH-E.de>
> > Cc: "Daniel Erez" <derez at redhat.com>, users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 4:32:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks
> > 
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > First of all thanks for the very useful plugin!
> > 
> > Is this plugin compatible with oVirt 3.2.1 or is a newer version
> > required (didn't update to 3.2.2 yet)? I'm having the same issue as
> > Michale and I think api.showDialog causes this issue, but didn't had
> > enough time to verify yet...
> 
> It would probably require newer builds...
> As the plugin uses a rather recent API (e.g. adding a button
> 'OnlyFromContext').
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > René
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 15:06 +0200, Michael Wagenknecht wrote:
> > > Yes I have and the ui-vdsm-hooks.cgi is accessable from the web server.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Am 10.06.2013 14:59, schrieb Daniel Erez:
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > >> From: "Michael Wagenknecht"<Wagenknecht at FuH-E.de>
> > > >> To: users at ovirt.org
> > > >> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 1:15:34 PM
> > > >> Subject: Re: [Users] New UI plugin: UI-VDSM-Hooks
> > > >>
> > > >> I have a problem with the plugin.
> > > >> I installed it like the other ui-plugins I use, but if I choose a
> > > >> function like "GetAllTasks", I only get a new window with the ovirt
> > > >> startpage.
> > > > Have you copied the cgi-bin folder into a web server in your host?
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Am 09.06.2013 18:40, schrieb Daniel Erez:
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I've created a new UI plugin that allows invocation of VDSM commands
> > > >>> directly from the WebAdmin (using CGI scripts and vdsClient).
> > > >>>
> > > >>> You can read all about it in my blog: http://derezvir.blogspot.co.il/
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks,
> > > >>> Daniel
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