REST based service is postponed, no active progress from mysids either.

Thanks
-min

On 4/25/13 1:10 AM, "Rohit Yadav" <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:08:49AM -0400, Sebastien Goasguen wrote:
>> >
>> > 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 think some work was already underway - Min/Rohit started working on
>> a complete REST based service. It is a significant change and I'll let
>> them speak about the scale of that change. In my case, I just want to
>> auto-generate marvin classes without having to hand edit anything.
>>
>
>Nothing from my side on REST based service.
>
>
>>
>> >
>> > I started a toy REST example for a talk:
>> > https://github.com/runseb/cloudstack-flask/blob/master/flasktest.py
>>
>
>+1 cool
>
>Cheers.
>
>
>> This is cool! Will check it out!
>>
>> >
>> > 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/
>> > >
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