[Freeipa-devel] XML-RPC API: update_*

[Karl MacMillan]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 10:31 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> The XML-RPC interface for updating things is a bit funky. One needs to 
> pass in the original entry and the new one and those are diffed and 
> committed by the API.
> 
> Kevin liked doing it this way because it decreased the chance of mid-air 
> collisions.
> 
> So if admin A and admin B both edited user U at the same time but 
> updated different fields both commits would succeed if we send the 
> original record. Otherwise one would stomp on the other.
> 
> That is fine but not everyone will want to carry the original data 
> around merely to pass it back. I'm proposing a compromise: we provide both.
> 
> I want to make it support an empty record ('') for old. If that happens 
> then we look up the current record and use that as the "old" entry. 
> Otherwise we use the one passed in. Alternatively I could create a 
> separate set of calls, one that handles old and new and one that just 
> handles new but that might be even more confusing.
> 
> Opinions?
> 

The empty record idea sounds good to me.

Karl