[Ovirt-devel] OVirt public API

[Thomas von Steiger]

On Jul 16, 2008, at 11:16 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:21 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> I've no idea how you're anticipating doing the server side coding for
>> the API, but if there was a way todo it such that the Ruby impl of
>> the APIs didn't have any direct knowledge of REST, we could add in
>> other API styles later.
>
> The nice thing about REST is that it's very well supported in Rails,  
> to
> the point that exposing things through REST is as simple as doing
> traditional WUI responses (actually simpler, since you don't have to
> worry about those pesky views)

Definitve interesting discussion!

XMLRPC  or/and RESTful i found this is a good solution:

http://md314159265.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/comparison-of-rest-vs-xml-rpc/

google hits for XMLRPC:	11'900'000
google hits for RESTful:	5'400'000

Thomas