Kawan: Seems that the "View" is a high-level abstraction that is "common" to all providers i.e. a baseline to promote portability. It also provides some convienient methods like runScripts... OTOH, the richness of the full OpenStack NOVA API can only be accessed via NovaApi. So I guess for Nova-specific features use NovaApi and use ComputeService to use features "common" to all. That's how its supposed to work as pointed out to me.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Kavan Patil <kavan.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am no JClouds expert but : > > I tend to use this (and seems like this is encouraged): > > ------------- > NovaApi api = > ContextBuilder.newBuilder(...) > .credentials(...) > .endpoint(...) > .buildApi(NovaApi.class); > --------------- > > than this: > > --------------- > > ctx=ContextBuilder.newBuilder( > "openstack-nova")// > .endpoint("....")// > .credentials("...", "....")// > .buildView(ComputeServiceContext.class); > > //RestContext use seems to be discouraged now as i see it is deprecated > //RestContext<NovaApi, NovaAsyncApi> nova = ctx.unwrap() > //nova.getApi()... // do something with NovaApi > > NovaApi novaApi = ctx.unwrapApi(NovaApi.class); > ---------------- > > But I always wanted to know what is the difference between a View and Api? > Can I have different View other that ComputerServiceContext for a compute > provider? > > Regards, > Kavan > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Bk Lau <bklau2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Zack: >> Not sure. I haven't got a Rackspace account to try it out yet. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Zack Shoylev < >> zack.shoy...@rackspace.com> wrote: >> >>> I am looking at the examples I use ( >>> https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/blob/master/rackspace/src/main/java/org/jclouds/examples/rackspace/cloudservers/CreateServer.java#L83) >>> Seems your code is about the same, any issues with it? >>> >>> >>> >>> From: Bk Lau [mailto:bklau2...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:11 AM >>> To: user@jclouds.incubator.apache.org >>> Subject: NovaComputeService >>> >>> Hi: >>> Is NovaComputeService currently intended to be used as below? >>> >>> ctx=ContextBuilder.newBuilder("openstack-nova")// >>> .endpoint("....")// >>> .credentials("...", "....")// >>> .buildView(ComputeServiceContext.class); >>> NovaComputeService s=(NovaComputeService)ctx.getComputeService(); >>> Thanks, >>> BK >>> >> >> >