[Ovirt-devel] Ovirt QMF API Proposal

[Ian Main]

On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:51:03 -0700
David Lutterkort <lutter at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:57 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The idea of having a formal QMF API is very nice, but I can't help thinking
> > it will limit the potential userbase of the API since you of course need to
> > get a QMF api for your client. The really compelling thing about REST APIs
> > is that they are immediately usable by any client which has web browsing
> > capabilities - which is basically every device with a network connection
> > these days. No extra/special client side software required.
> 
> Surely, both have their advantages; it's true that you can access the
> REST API from anything that can make web requests (and handle XML) - but
> to actually use the API you still need convenience wrappers around all
> that so you can get from a VM to the hardware pool it's in without going
> crazy.

My understanding was that it was actually fairly difficult to use the REST
API from various languages?

    Ian