[ovirt-users] SKD4

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Fabrice Bacchella <
fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr> wrote:

>
> Le 6 avr. 2017 à 15:32, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> a écrit :
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Fabrice Bacchella <
> fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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).
>
>
> An example of code that I'm unhappy to write and that a good sdk should
> have provided:
>
> searchfilter = "%s=%s" % (type, value)
> vm = vms_service.list(search= searchfilter)[0]
>
> instead of :
> vms_service.list(search= {type: value})[0]
>
> or even better:
> vms_service.get(**{type: value})
>


Yes, I see what you mean. 100% more LoC are currently needed vs. your idea
;-)

Seriously though - perhaps you could borrow code from our Ansible module?
See[1].

Y.

[1]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/699df5824d36dab5cb46b3f7c63e8992bd778b27/lib/ansible/module_utils/ovirt.py#L220
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