[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] jderose 017-2 Giant webui patch take 2

[Rob Crittenden]

Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> Okay, finally here is the revised webui patch.  Since the last version,
> I:
> 
>  * Ported to various API changed between wehjit 0.0.1 and 0.1.0
> 
>  * Removed the session.py stuff, which will be in a separate patch
> 
>  * Added the plugin browser to help developers inspect the plugins
> 
> The webui is still in a similar "dumb" state till I extend various
> meta-data in ipalib, which I will work on this week and will quickly get
> the UI into a more impressive state.  I just can't let this patch get
> any larger... stop the madness!  ;)  There currently isn't a top-level
> webui-page at /ipa/ui, but pages exist for each command plugin,
> i.e., /ipa/ui/user_add
> 
> This patch is big, but tries to be non-intrusive: the new webui stuff
> only runs from the new lite-server.py script, not for the installed
> version running under Apache.  As far as I know, no existing
> functionality is disrupted by this patch.  After making the meta-data
> changes, I will enable the new functionality under Apache also.
> 
> I hope everyone will find the plugin-browser quite helpful.  To run it,
> launch lite-server.py like this:
> 
>   ./lite-server.py
> 
> And then point your browser to:
> 
>   http://127.0.0.1:8888/ipa/ui/Command
> 
> All plugins in all namespaces are available in the browser, but details
> are currently only available for the Command and Object namespaces.  I
> will also soon add an easy way to render the plugin browser to static
> pages to put on freeipa.org.
> 
> This patch requires python-wehjit and python-assets, which are in
> Fedora12 and rawhide.  Or you can install from tarballs here:
> 
>   http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/assets/current/
> 
>   http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/wehjit/current/
> 
> A couple of weekends ago I also packaged assets and wehjit for
> Debian/Ubuntu.  Karmic packages are available in my PPA:
> 
>   https://launchpad.net/~jderose/+archive/ppa
> 
> Sorry the patch is so large, subsequent ones wont be.

ack.

rob
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