[ovirt-users] oVirt Python SDK on Ubuntu

[Ondra Machacek]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot <nicolas at ecarnot.net> wrote:
> Le 23/01/2017 à 13:38, Ondra Machacek a écrit :
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot <nicolas at ecarnot.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to follow
>>>
>>> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/infra/python-sdk/
>>> and I'm successfully discovering Python + oVirt SDK on CentOS.
>>>
>>> I'd like to do the same on Ubuntu, but the instructions seem incomplete :
>>>
>>> "
>>> easy_install ovirt-engine-sdk-python
>>> "
>>>
>>> is working, but "import ovirtsdk" doen't give anything.
>>
>>
>> Note that the wiki page is about SDK version 3, which will be deprecated
>> in 4.2.
>> When you run 'easy_install ovirt-engine-sdk-python' it will install
>> Python SDK version
>> 4, which is different from SDK version 3.
>
>
> You're right, and I haven't noticed : import ovirtsdk4 is working.
>
>>
>> You may find few examples of Python SDK version 4 here:
>>
>>  https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/tree/master/sdk/examples
>
>
> Yes, this list of examples is a treasure, and I'm grateful to the
> maintainers.
>
> Alas, though we already have one DC in V4, most of our production DCs are
> still in V3 for one year, and I have to maintain them.
> So far, I have no clue how to add ovirtsdk v3 to my Ubuntu.

You just need to specify which version you would like to install, in your case:

 easy_install ovirt-engine-sdk-python==3.6.9.2

>
> Another point : is the compatibility between ovirtsdk and oVirt completely
> obvious (ie 3 -> 3 and 4 -> 4), or is there any kind of backward
> compatibility?

Unfortunatelly no, there is no backward compatibility between SDK v3 and v4.

>
> --
> Nicolas ECARNOT