[pve-devel] Json reply format

Maxim Voronov mvoronov at basealt.ru
Wed Mar 21 15:36:00 CET 2018



21.03.2018 17:17, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 3/21/18 2:46 PM, Maxim Voronov wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I'm working on PVE rest api client and using this documentation: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html
>>
>> According to this documentation calling GET /api2/json/access/domains will return me an array,
>>
>> but I did not found description of what objects are in the array. To get the format of objects I call endpoints of our production PVE server :-D
>>
>> The question is - where can I have a look at json reply formats for all of endpoint ?
>>
> There are two problems for easy viewing this info
> through the API viewer.
>
> 1) we only show the top level type
>
> 2) Unfortunately we have not all return types fully annotated.
> With new API call we try to be more thorough with that, but
> for older ones you may often not come around of reading the
> code or simply testing it by doing the call, I'm afraid.
>
> E.g., for the domains and other /access related stuff you can
> find the API code in the pve-access-control git repository,
> a web view for the domain API call would be:
>
> https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-access-control.git;a=blob;f=PVE/API2/Domains.pm;h=b5fa65efc9253847ee49e73bef577c0ab9cf2bf9;hb=HEAD#l52
>
> (this one is already annotated about what it returns)
>
> Ideally we would find time to annotate all the API calls but
> as this needs quite a bit of time and does not brings an effect
> for 99% of our users its on the back burner.
>
>
> I can look into showing at least the info we already have in the
> API viewer, makes sense to me.
>
> cheers,
> Thomas
>

I understand the problem. Hope the API code will help me not to miss 
something.



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