[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] a bunch of small tweeks

[Karl MacMillan]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:18 -0700, Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> Karl MacMillan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:30 -0700, Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> > > This is a set of small tweeks suggested in my meeting with Bob and Pete
> > > yesterday.
> > > 
> > > The most controversial is adding a search timeout for find users and
> > > groups.  I've put this at 2 seconds for now.  The problem with this
> > > approach is that it makes the number of results that come back random -
> > > depending on the server.
> > > 
> > > So, consider it a test.  Please send your feedback if you have opinions
> > > (it's pushed to demo).
> > > 
> > 
> > It looks like the time limit will effect all clients, including xml-rpc
> > clients? If so, that doesn't seem like a good idea. Should we expose a
> > timeout parameter in the xml-rpc layer and let the gui have a
> > configurable value that it always passes?
> 
> I'm not sure why it matters differently for xml-rpc clients?  The time
> limit it on the ldap search operation.  Or, do we expect the xml-rpc
> clients to be used more for reporting (in which case I agree it's a
> problem).
> 

I was thinking that the xml-rpc clients might be used in ways that we
don't want the timeout - reporting being a good example.

Karl