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

[Einav Cohen]

> vojtech - how about adding a very simple "samples-portals" with it to
> the repo?

I believe that Jenny is already working on a ovirt.js-based portal?
@Jenny: sounds like your work may be a good fit for our "Sample User 
Portals" repository (more details in [1])?

[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Sample_user_portals

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:03:37 PM
> 
> On 11/06/2014 02:59 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> >> To: "Nikita Kodkani" <nikita.kodkani at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: "users" <Users at ovirt.org>, "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 12:37:21 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Fwd: [ovirt-users] Integration of ovirt-engine GUI with the
> >> CLI
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Exactly, the main use case for oVirtJS is to allow working with Engine
> > from within a JavaScript environment. HTML/JS web application is the
> > primary use case, we also plan to support "server-side JS code running
> > on Node.js" as another use case, so that people can potentially write
> > custom server-side JS to work with Engine.
> 
> vojtech - how about adding a very simple "samples-portals" with it to
> the repo?
> 
> >
> >>
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>          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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