On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> wrote:
> Vijay added the ability to send userdata as POST for the > deployVirtualMachine API in review [1]. What I'd like to address here > is how to expose this via ApiDiscovery so that clients like marvin, > cloudmonkey can autogenerate themselves to support APIs of this > kind. This also needs to be clearly specified in our API docs. > > I'm guessing we'll have to put in additional annotations on our APIs > that support POST so that API discovery can print the methods > supported (GET/POST). Right now it's only the deployVMCmd (AFAIK). But > I expect this will need to be done for others soon. > > I've included POST support for _every_ command in marvin but that's > just brute-force. To make it more intelligent I think we should apply > it to only apis that make sense as POST (causing side-effects). But > that needs to be exposed by the api endpoint. > > Thoughts? Prasanna, this seems to me like a bigger discussion as you say, we could see more api start having a POST. Will we later see DELETE and PATCH… Could be that we are talking about making the API from RESTfull which would be a big undertaking. I started a toy REST example for a talk: https://github.com/runseb/cloudstack-flask/blob/master/flasktest.py It would be a bit silly to create a REST wrapper on our API but might give ideas... -Sebastien > > [1] https://reviews.apache.org/r/10294/ > > -- > Prasanna., > > ------------------------ > Powered by BigRock.com >
