[Freeipa-devel] Bulk IPA commands

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:50:50 -0400
Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:

> There should be some metadata about what to do if some call fails.
> Like fail the whole thing and stop or continue for the rest.
> So there should be a dictionary of the multicall properties.
> 

this would mean introducing "chained" calls, I advice against it, at
least, initially.
All parallel calls SHOULD be independent and not depend on the result
of a previous call.

Chaining unveils a pretty big can of worms and makes managing errors
potentially quite complex.

Simo.

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