[ovirt-users] Looking for Python-SDK documentation

[Alexander Wels]

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 05:12:34 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>    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"...
> > 

The RH RHEV REST api documentation [1] looks fairly complete to me, the API is 
identical to oVirt.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html-single/REST_API_Guide/
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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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