[ovirt-users] SKD4

[Fabrice Bacchella]

> Le 6 avr. 2017 à 16:12, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> a écrit :
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> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Fabrice Bacchella <fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr <mailto:fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr>> wrote:
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>> Le 6 avr. 2017 à 15:32, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com <mailto: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 <mailto:fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr>> wrote:
>> Yes I'm starting to understand that thinking about migrating code is pointless.
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>> 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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> An example of code that I'm unhappy to write and that a good sdk should have provided:
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> searchfilter = "%s=%s" % (type, value)
> vm = vms_service.list(search= searchfilter)[0]
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> instead of :
> vms_service.list(search= {type: value})[0]
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> or even better:
> vms_service.get(**{type: value})
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> Yes, I see what you mean. 100% more LoC are currently needed vs. your idea ;-)

It's not about the number of LoC, it's about legibility, having code that says what's it's doing and doing what it says.
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