[Ovirt-devel] OVirt public API

[Michael DeHaan]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:14:37PM +0200, Thomas von Steiger wrote:
>   
>> 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/
>>     
>
> Frankly that's a rather dubious article, eg to quote 
>   
>   "REST is an HTTP based protocol. Whereas XML-RPC is XML based."
>
> What network protocol exactly does the author think the XML is being sent
> over ?!?!? Does he really think you can't send XML over HTTP ? Or another
>   

That sentence is correct. REST does not specify XML. It has zero defined 
protocol for the data other
than that it uses some set of HTTP error codes and operations.