[Freeipa-devel] Bulk IPA commands

[Dmitri Pal]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
This is true. I am just saying that we need to add to the interface the
ability to define additional parameters on the metacall level. We can
ignore them for now but the syntax should allow it for future use.

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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