[ovirt-users] Fwd: Integration of ovirt-engine GUI with the CLI

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/04/2014 01:54 PM, Nikita Kodkani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To add further...
> I read it somewhere on google, that to execute the shell commands in the
> JavaScript we have to use node.js at the backend.
>
> We don't want to spend time on learning the technology in this time frame.
>
> -Does ovirt-engine provide API's for executing the shell commands?

its the other way around - the cli/shell commands are using the engine 
python-sdk, which uses the engine REST API.

if your solution is html/javascript based, i think using ovirt.js (which 
wraps calling to the engine rest api 'nicely', vs. you doing it yourself 
from your code) is the way to go.

http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/025198.html
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Design/Using_REST_API_In_Web_UI
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-August/008502.html
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20140819/a35caa44/attachment-0001.pdf


>
>
> Thanks,
> Nikita
>
> Nikita Kodkani
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/04/2014 11:47 AM, Nikita Kodkani wrote:
>
>         It is designed in javascript/HTML. We had initially designed some
>         feature using CLI. But now we just want to execute command when
>         we hit
>         the button/tab.
>
>
>     vojtech - sounds like ovirt.js could be the best fit here?
>
>         -Nikita
>
>         i
>
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>         On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>
>              On 11/04/2014 06:30 AM, Nikita Kodkani wrote:
>
>                  Hi,
>
>                  I have the CLI designed for the RHEV-M. I have also
>         designed
>                  some GUI in
>                  ovirt-engine.
>                  Now I am stuckup with the integration. Could you
>         suggest how to
>                  connect
>                  the ovirt-engine GUI with the backend CLI commands?
>
>
>              which language is your gui?
>              why use the CLI instead of the python or java SDKs
>              (or ruby or javascript ones)
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