Yes, that is unfortunate design. The service interface was not supposed to
do that.
CC Min and Alex to see if they have a quick workaround.
It would also help to know what exactly you are trying to achieve.

On 7/15/13 11:12 PM, "SuichII, Christopher" <chris.su...@netapp.com> wrote:

>It looks like the service interfaces all expect to be invoked directly
>from an API handler (they only have Cmds for parameters). For example,
>QueryService/QueryManagerImpl.searchForServers() takes a ListHostsCmd.
>This ListsHostsCmd can only be created by invoking the listHosts API. If
>it had public setters, then the command could be instantiated and
>execute() could be called directly, but that wouldn't be working at the
>service interface level.
>
>Am I missing something here or is this not the service interface you
>meant?
>
>-Chris
>
>On Jul 15, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Chiradeep Vittal
><chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote:
>
>> APIs should call the service interface directly and not call other APIs.
>> 
>> On 7/12/13 1:40 AM, "SuichII, Christopher" <chris.su...@netapp.com>
>>wrote:
>> 
>>> Er, I should have mentioned that it is not as easy as simply invoking
>>>one
>>> API command from another since all the CS API commands have private
>>> @paramenter members. Because of this, I cannot simply instantiate a
>>> command, populate it with the parameters and call execute() on it.
>>> 
>>> -Chris
>>> 
>>> On Jul 11, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Chris Suich <chris.su...@netapp.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm writing an API plugin that needs to consume an API that already
>>>> exists in CS. The only way I can find to do this would be to send the
>>>> REST/HTTP request from my plugin, but I'm hoping there is an easier
>>>>way.
>>>> Since both plugins are on the same Java classpath they have the
>>>>ability
>>>> to invoke each other.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a simple way to do this that I'm missing?
>>>> 
>>>> -Chris
>>> 
>> 
>

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