[Ovirt-devel] Skipping the Browser :)

[Ian Main]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:20:15 +0200
Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> wrote:

> Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > Is everything in ovirt that can be accessed as a GUI (and performed by 
> > the GUI) accessible as a web service (by this, I mean something simple 
> > like XMLRPC or JSON-over-REST?).    Can there also be an ovirt command 
> > line for simple scripting integration?
> 
> The answer right now is "no", but it's something basically everyone has asked
> for, so it's definitely on the roadmap.  We have to define the API, then
> implement the underlying API, and then (possibly) port the web application over
> to using that API.  Agreed that it is a very useful thing to have.

Yeah, we're working on exposing an API for multiple languages for scripting.  Myself and David Lutterkort are working on it.  We'll post a draft API probly in a few days.  You can read a bit of the discussion we had prior to this on the list in the 'Thoughts about taskomatic' thread.

Cheers! :)

	Ian