[ovirt-users] SKD4

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Fabrice Bacchella <
fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr> wrote:

>
> Le 6 avr. 2017 à 15:32, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> a écrit :
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> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Fabrice Bacchella <
> fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr> wrote:
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>> Yes I'm starting to understand that thinking about migrating code is
>> pointless.
>>
>> The old skd3 code is just good to be thrown away. There is no hope
>> thinking about "migrating code". And as it's just a thin layer around REST
>> calls, it's up to us to try to make something usable around that. So I
>> expect a lot of sweat and tears to adapt my existing code.
>>
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> Well, yes and no. Yes, it's not smooth, but once you 'get' the idea behind
> the v4 API philosophy, it's quite easy to write to (at least in Python).
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> Easy to write code that a well though sdk should have provided.
>

I'd like to believe our v4 SDKs are. They fix several inconsistencies we've
had with v3.


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> Note that right now you can mix between v3 and v4, so you can migrate
> slowly, function by function.
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>
> That's a possible but almost as complicated as rewrite everything in my
> case.
>

Perhaps in your case. Here[1] is an example of the ovirt system tests,
which were only partially converted (work in progress...) to v4 API.

HTH,
Y.

[1]
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-system-tests.git;a=blob;f=basic-suite-master/test-scenarios/002_bootstrap.py;h=c0e71df23f17335d59d9d37fcd4c833be6372c69;hb=HEAD#l109


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> Another option that you can consider, if you are re-writing, is automation
> via Ansible.
> See https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/tree/
> devel/cloud/ovirt
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>
> A lot of people don't use ansible or use concurrent tools. So no that's
> not an option.
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