[ovirt-users] Looking for Python-SDK documentation

Brett I. Holcomb biholcomb at l1049h.com
Tue Apr 12 21:12:34 UTC 2016


   1. On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 23:03 +0200, Frank Thommen wrote:
> On 12.04.16 13:57, Alexander Wels wrote:
> > 
> > On Monday, April 11, 2016 05:03:28 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 20:41 +0200, Frank Thommen wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On 11.04.16 20:17, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > I'm in the same boat as Frank.  I've done programming in various
> > > languages since Fortran without the numbers <G> but only when
> > > needed
> > > for my job as an Engineer so I'm not a professional but just
> > > trying to
> > > get a job done.  It would be nice to have a full reference so we
> > > know
> > > what to provide.  When trying to connect with the api I finally
> > > figured
> > > out to use ca_file (like ca-file on the command line).  Raz's
> > > reference
> > > is more complete but still leaves a lot out.  The newer
> > > equivalent of
> > > Raz's reference seems to be http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-
> > > manage
> > > ment/features/infra/python-sdk/.
> > The Python/Java/Ruby SDKs are simply language specific wrappers
> > around the REST
> > api. So if you want a full list of all the options available check
> > out the
> > REST api documentation. You will have to translate a particular
> > REST api
> > field/feature to the SDK, but all the SDKs are generated from the
> > REST api
> > interface definition so the naming and everything should be the
> > same.
> That makes sense, thanks.  On the other hand I could also not find
> any 
> REST api reference.  Just some pages with examples a la "find it out 
> yourself from there"...
> 
> frank
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Same here.  A lot of examples, some more detailed but no "API Reference
Manual for oVirt REST API" like we had in the old days <G>.




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