My need is to create an application that manages the creation of API from a single central point (a PHP site).
The WSO2 API manager has some interesting REST API that can be used to create programmatically an API.
To manage these API better I've developed (still in development) a library that calls the API manager, manage errors and wrap the whole up.
If you need it here is the link to github.
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Friday, November 29, 2013
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Yii framework and CloudStack and Flex and ...
For the Open-DAI project I need to create a quick and dirty consolle (I hope it will become something more sophisticated, but for now I need something functional).
The target is to manage to pilot CloudStack to create VMs. I cannot use the CloudStack interface since it does not allow for adding "user data" so I need to use API calls to di the job
The problem is that I need to do this job cross CloudStack domains.
So have to get the list of API key and secret key and other CloudStack related data and write down a small program to issue the calls.
Obviously since you need to manage creation you need to be able to see what is going on in time so a small DB will be needed and also since the architecture of Open-DAI require to create management VMs in a precise order There will be the need to manage a simple workflow.
I also like to present the user with a view of the architectural deploy model describing the state of the deployed VMs.
Since I want to do things in a fast way without having to install too many things I decided to use PHP, a SQLite DB, Flex for the "toppings".
Since I believe that reinventing the wheel is not advisable I looked over to some of the PHP frameworks around ... at firts looked at Zend 2.0 ... really nice but ... damn complicated, you surely manage to do a lot but have to overcome a steep learning curve, so after few hours of hacking I looked somewhere else and ... landed on Yii.
Well I can say I'm surprised. It took more or less three hours (following the tutorial) to have a first scratch of application, integrated with the CloudStack library and ready to receive some of the code I already prepared in the last days (tomorrow will be a day of cut and paste and fix).
I can advice to look at it.
The target is to manage to pilot CloudStack to create VMs. I cannot use the CloudStack interface since it does not allow for adding "user data" so I need to use API calls to di the job
The problem is that I need to do this job cross CloudStack domains.
So have to get the list of API key and secret key and other CloudStack related data and write down a small program to issue the calls.
Obviously since you need to manage creation you need to be able to see what is going on in time so a small DB will be needed and also since the architecture of Open-DAI require to create management VMs in a precise order There will be the need to manage a simple workflow.
I also like to present the user with a view of the architectural deploy model describing the state of the deployed VMs.
Since I want to do things in a fast way without having to install too many things I decided to use PHP, a SQLite DB, Flex for the "toppings".
Since I believe that reinventing the wheel is not advisable I looked over to some of the PHP frameworks around ... at firts looked at Zend 2.0 ... really nice but ... damn complicated, you surely manage to do a lot but have to overcome a steep learning curve, so after few hours of hacking I looked somewhere else and ... landed on Yii.
Well I can say I'm surprised. It took more or less three hours (following the tutorial) to have a first scratch of application, integrated with the CloudStack library and ready to receive some of the code I already prepared in the last days (tomorrow will be a day of cut and paste and fix).
I can advice to look at it.
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