Bug 1884146

Summary: Deprecate and remove ovirt-engine-api-explorer
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Martin Perina <mperina>
Component: ovirt-engine-api-explorerAssignee: Ori Liel <oliel>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Pavol Brilla <pbrilla>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 4.4.0CC: aoconnor, emarcus, mtessun
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.4.3Keywords: ZStream
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Fixed In Version: ovirt-engine-4.4.3.8 Doc Type: Removed functionality
Doc Text:
The ovirt-engine-api-explorer package has been deprecated and removed in Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.4.3. Customers should use the official REST API Guide instead, which provides the same information as ovirt-engine-api-explorer. See https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.4/html/rest_api_guide/indexcom/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.4/html/rest_api_guide/index
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Last Closed: 2020-11-24 13:10:07 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Martin Perina 2020-10-01 07:52:50 UTC
ovirt-engine-api-explorer is a simple application running on RHV Manager machine, which provides RESTAPI documentation. Unfortunately this application is written in JavaScript, which is very hard to keep updated and safe. Also ovirt-engine-api-explorer doesn't provide much bigger comfort than viewing RESTAPI documentation directly [1], so we have decide to remove ovirt-engine-api-explorer in RHV 4.4.3.
Here are details:

1. Link on Welcome page will point to the official RESTAPI doc [1] instead of ovirt-engine-api-explorer

2. ovirt-engine package will obsolete ovirt-engine-api-explorer package, so it won't be installed anymore

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.4/html/rest_api_guide/index

Comment 2 Pavol Brilla 2020-10-30 11:07:46 UTC
# yum list ovirt-engine ovirt-engine-api-explorer
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:37:49 ago on Fri 30 Oct 2020 11:22:05 AM CET.
Installed Packages
ovirt-engine.noarch                                                                                      4.4.3.8-0.1.el8ev                                                                         @rhv-4.4.3                   
Available Packages
ovirt-engine-api-explorer.noarch                                                                         0.0.6-1.el8ev                                                                             rhel-7-server-rhv-manager-4.4


# yum install ovirt-engine-api-explorer
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:44:20 ago on Fri 30 Oct 2020 11:22:05 AM CET.
Package ovirt-engine-4.4.3.8-0.1.el8ev.noarch is already installed.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-24 13:10:07 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Low: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5179