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XenServer Software Development Kit
Welcome to the developer’s guide for XenServer. Here you will find the information you need in order to understand and use the Software Development Kit (SDK) that XenServer provides. This information will provide you with some of the architectural background and thinking that underpins the APIs, the tools that have been provided, and how to quickly get off the ground.
Getting Started
XenServer includes a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) based API providing programmatic access to the extensive set of XenServer management features and tools. You can call the XenServer Management API from a remote system or from local to the XenServer host.
It’s possible to write applications that use the XenServer Management API directly through raw RPC calls. However, the task of developing third-party applications is greatly simplified by using a language binding. These language bindings expose the individual API calls as first-class functions in the target language. The XenServer SDK provides language bindings for the C, C#, Java, Python, and PowerShell programming languages.
System Requirements and Preparation
The first step towards using the SDK is to install XenServer. XenServer is available for download at https://www.xenserver.com/downloads. For detailed instructions on how to set up your development host, see the Install XenServer.
When the installation is complete, note the host IP address and the host password.
Downloading
The SDK is packaged as a ZIP file and is available as a free download from https://www.xenserver.com/downloads.
The Python module is also available as a package on PyPi. See section SDK Languages - Python for details.
SDK contents
The extracted contents of the SDK ZIP file are in the XenServer-SDK directory. Where necessary, subdirectories have their own individual README files.
Note:
The contents of the SDK ZIP consist of library binaries and their source code. Previous releases of the SDK ZIP included a number of examples for each of the SDK languages to help you get started with the SDK. These examples have now been removed from the SDK ZIP and are available at XenServer SDK usage examples on GitHub.
The examples provided aren’t the same across all the SDK languages. If you intend to use one language, it’s advisable to browse the sample code available in the others as well.
The top level of the XenServer-SDK directory includes the XenServer Management API Reference document. This document provides an overview of the API types and classes.
The API supports two wire formats, one based upon XML-RPC and one based upon JSON-RPC (v1.0 and v2.0 are both recognised). For more information on the API semantics and the wire protocol of the RPC messages, see section XenServer Management API. The format supported by each of the SDK languages is specified in the following paragraphs.
Supported languages
The XenServer SDK provides support for the following languages:
Command line interface (CLI)
Besides using raw RPC or one of the supplied SDK languages, third-party software developers can integrate with XenServer hosts
by using the xe command line interface xe. The xe CLI is installed by default on XenServer hosts. A stand-alone remote CLI is also
available for Linux. On Windows, the xe.exe CLI executable is installed along with XenCenter.
Platform supported:
- Linux
- Windows
Library:
- None
Binary:
- xe on Linux
- xe.exe on Windows
Dependencies:
- None
The CLI allows almost every API call to be directly invoked from a script or other program, silently taking care of the required session management. The xe CLI syntax and capabilities are described in detail in the Command line interface documentation.
Note:
When running the CLI from a XenServer host console, tab completion of both command names and arguments is available.
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