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

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/06/2014 02:59 PM, Vojtech Szocs wrote:
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> ----- 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?

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>> 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
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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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