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

[Vojtech Szocs]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>, jennykang95 at gmail.com, "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>, "Nikita Kodkani" <nikita.kodkani at gmail.com>, "users" <Users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:56:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Integration of ovirt-engine GUI with the CLI
> 
> > 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?

Yes, AFAIK Jenny is already working on UserPortal-like web application
based on oVirtJS.

> @Jenny: sounds like your work may be a good fit for our "Sample User
> Portals" repository (more details in [1])?

+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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