[Ovirt-devel] Re: Ruby interface for Cobbler XML-RPC APIs.

Darryl L. Pierce dpierce at redhat.com
Wed Aug 13 13:30:39 UTC 2008


+++ Michael DeHaan [13/08/08 09:27 -0400]:
> Perhaps this isn't what this question was about, but FYI:  all calls can  
> go through the read-write interface for ovirt as it extends the  
> read-only interface.
>
> You would only want to construct something that uses the read-only  
> interface if you needed to do something like koan.
>
> Read only access does not require login() and only has a subset of the  
> available methods.

The way the Cobbler Ruby bindings are written, calls identify themselves as
writable or not. From that, it determines whether or not to the use read or
read/write interface to perform the call. The code doesn't keep a persistent
connection to the Cobbler server.

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