[katello-devel] Ideas for a ruby interface to our api?

[David Davis]

That was my understanding as well.

David

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Kearney" <bkearney at redhat.com>
> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:06:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Ideas for a ruby interface to our api?
> 
> On 02/20/2013 07:37 AM, Eric D Helms wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Tom McKay <thomasmckay at redhat.com
> > <mailto:thomasmckay at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >      > From: "Tomas Strachota" <tstrachota at redhat.com
> >     <mailto:tstrachota at redhat.com>>
> >      > To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> >      > <mailto:katello-devel at redhat.com>
> >      > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:50:45 AM
> >      > Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Ideas for a ruby interface to
> >      > our api?
> >      >
> >      > On 02/19/2013 05:40 PM, Tom McKay wrote:
> >      > >
> >      > >
> >      > > ----- Original Message -----
> >      > >> From: "Tomas Strachota" <tstrachota at redhat.com
> >     <mailto:tstrachota at redhat.com>>
> >      > >> To: "Tom McKay" <thomasmckay at redhat.com
> >     <mailto:thomasmckay at redhat.com>>
> >      > >> Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com
> >      > >> <mailto:katello-devel at redhat.com>
> >      > >> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:32:21 AM
> >      > >> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Ideas for a ruby interface
> >      > >> to our
> >      > >> api?
> >      > >>
> >      > >> On 02/19/2013 05:23 PM, Tom McKay wrote:
> >      > >>>
> >      > >>>
> >      > >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >      > >>>> From: "Tomas Strachota" <tstrachota at redhat.com
> >     <mailto:tstrachota at redhat.com>>
> >      > >>>> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> >      > >>>> <mailto:katello-devel at redhat.com>
> >      > >>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:07:51 AM
> >      > >>>> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Ideas for a ruby interface
> >      > >>>> to our
> >      > >>>> api?
> >      > >>>>
> >      > >>>> On 02/19/2013 03:54 PM, Tom McKay wrote:
> >      > >>>>>
> >      > >>>>> I'd like to whip up a ruby interface to our API. The
> >      > >>>>> python
> >      > >>>>> based
> >      > >>>>> CLI is not very friendly for scripting, in my opinion.
> >      > >>>>> Are
> >      > >>>>> there
> >      > >>>>> tools/frameworks/whatever out there that you know of
> >      > >>>>> that might
> >      > >>>>> make the task of wrapping our API and exposing it as
> >      > >>>>> ruby
> >      > >>>>> commands?
> >      > >>>>>
> >      > >>>>
> >      > >>>> Isn't it a feature of api pie? It provides api bindings
> >      > >>>> wrapped
> >      > >>>> in
> >      > >>>> a
> >      > >>>> gem.
> >      > >>>>
> >      > >>>> But let me ask a question:
> >      > >>>> What exactly do you find so unfriendly about python
> >      > >>>> that it is
> >      > >>>> worth
> >      > >>>> rewriting the cli?
> >      > >>>>
> >      > >>>> Tomas
> >      > >>>>
> >      > >>>>
> >      > >>>
> >      > >>> We have python bindings already? Are there example
> >      > >>> scripts?
> >      > >>>
> >      > >>
> >      > >> Not sure if I understand the question.
> >      > >>
> >      > >> If you meant ruby bindings - we don't have them, but the
> >      > >> api is
> >      > >> documented so it should be possible to generate it:
> >      > >> https://github.com/Pajk/apipie-rails#bindings-generator
> >      > >>
> >      > >> Tomas
> >      > >>
> >      > >
> >      > > I was asking if there were python bindings already with
> >      > > katello so
> >      > > I could write a python script.
> >      > >
> >      > > If you're saying I could run the apipie stuff against
> >      > > katello and
> >      > > generate these python bindings, then I understand. That is
> >      > > what I
> >      > > was looking for in python instead of ruby.
> >      > >
> >      > I see, I understand you now.
> >      > If you want bindings for Ruby than apipie is your friend.
> >      > If you want bindings for Python it's exactly as Eric wrote.
> >      >
> >      > > "As a user, I would like to write management scripts in
> >      > > the
> >      > > language of my choice against a katello server."
> >      > >
> >      > > If python bindings are already with the install, then I
> >      > > cannot find
> >      > > them nor mention of them on the wiki. Am I missing
> >      > > something
> >      > > obvious?
> >      > >
> >      > > The CLI is interesting and useful if "language of my
> >      > > choice" is
> >      > > bash. Right?
> >      > >
> >      > > The CLI command 'shell' is interactive but doesn't appear
> >      > > to be
> >      > > python; what is it?
> >      > It is python, actually. It's based on 'cmd'
> >      > http://docs.python.org/2/library/cmd.html
> >
> >     What I meant here was that the shell command itself is not
> >     scriptable:
> >
> >     $ katello shell
> >     katello> x = 12
> >     *** Unknown syntax: x = 12
> >     katello>
> >
> > So you are asking for the convenience of the Katello shell with
> > pre-configured commands that also includes a fully functional
> > Python
> > shell? Given that, with a standard python shell, you can import the
> > Katello package and make calls directly to it.
> 
> there are two examples we can look at:
> 
> space-command
> MS power shell
> 
> does anyone know how either deal with this
> 
> - bk
> 
> 
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