[Gluster-devel] Follow: GSoC Proposal for a RESTful/JSON API and server for GlusterFS similar to WebHDFS

[RJ Nowling]

Good idea!


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Jay Vyas <jayunit100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> RJ  once you have code working also let me suggest you spend time on
> creating a docker or vagrant environment for reproducing your deployments
> so it's easy for us to test and so that we can feedback into James shubins
> work efforts at making gluster systems easier to test with things like
> puppet-gluster and his F19 vagrant/gluster/puppet recipes..
>
> On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:51 AM, RJ Nowling <rnowling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Justin, thanks for the heads up.  I agree that ti would be best to use the
> same frameworks / libraries.  I'll look into Aravinda's work.  I'll try to
> get in touch with Aravinda, too.
>
> Thiago, it's great that you've working on python bindings!  That makes my
> project much easier.  :)  It'll also be good to look at the Gluster backend
> for Swift.
>
> I've edited the proposal based on comments from Jay. I don't want to clog
> everyone's inboxes again, so if anyone wants to see it, I can send it to
> you.
>
> Thank you again for your enthusiasm and support!
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Thiago da Silva <thiago at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>> RJ, very nice proposal.
>>
>> I agree that this is a different project than a management REST API, but
>> it is possible that these two projects could merge one day (e.g., GUI
>> interface), so it is possibly a good idea to at least see what each
>> other are doing...
>>
>> I'm working on the python bindings for libgfapi
>> (https://github.com/gluster/libgfapi-python), so let me know if I can
>> help with questions.
>>
>> Also, this might be a bit of a stretch, but gluster-swift is a "plugin"
>> for using Gluster as the backend storage for Openstack Swift. It is
>> object-storage, so it might not apply to what your are trying to do, but
>> it might provide some ideas, so I'd say it's worth taking a look...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thiago
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 18:29 +0530, Kaushal M wrote:
>> > Aravinda's rest api is for the management of glusterfs, ie. glusterd.
>> > Both are attempting different things.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Justin Clift <justin at gluster.org>
>> wrote:
>> > > On 19/03/2014, at 1:20 AM, RJ Nowling wrote:
>> > >> Hi all,
>> > >>
>> > >> I wanted to follow up.  I drafted a proposal for creating a
>> RESTful/JSON API and server for GlusterFS similar to WebHDFS.  As the
>> number of big data processing and storage systems explode, integration is
>> becoming more important.  A language and operating system agnostic
>> RESTful/JSON API and server could be helpful for easing integration efforts.
>> > >
>> > > API's are cool.  The more (non-duplicating) the merrier. :)
>> > >
>> > > Have you taken a look at the REST API in development for 3.6,
>> > > by Aravinda (CC'd)?
>> > >
>> > >
>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/rest-api
>> > >   http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Planning36
>> > >
>> > > Not sure if both yours and Aravinda's are doing the same thing,
>> > > more mentioning just in case.
>> > >
>> > > Hope that helps. :)
>> > >
>> > > Regards and best wishes,
>> > >
>> > > Justin Clift
>> > >
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>> > >
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>> > >
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