[Freeipa-devel] Rename insta//static to install/ui

[Dmitri Pal]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Adam Young wrote:
>> I've been working with Kyle Baker to implement the cleanup of the
>> migration and the error reporting pages. One thing that is messing us up
>> is the fact that the URL as exposed on the server is different than the
>> file structure. I'd like to propose the folowing changes:
>>
>>
>> First: rename install/static to install/ui.
>
> You just want to rename the directory in the git tree?
>
>> I wanted to use this name from the get go, but there was a conflict with
>> the wsgi based ui. It has been gone for a long enough time now that the
>> rename should cause no conflicts.
>>
>> Second: merge the html directory into the ui directory.
>
> I'm ok with that, it's just 2 files.
>
>> We need them to be separate originally because the UI was getting
>> authentication, but the error messages and so forth were not. NOw, none
>> of the ui gets authenticated, only the JSON RPC.
>>
>> Third: make an RPC url that we can call without authentication.
>>
>> The migration page is the last thing we have that uses server side
>> scripting. I'd like to complete the work of splitting UI from business
>> logic. However, the migration code needs to make an RPC unauthenticated.
>> Right now this is the only page that needs to do so, but we could
>> potentially have others. If we made a parallel structure for xml rpc and
>> json RPC that could be called unauthenticated, we could also perform the
>> migration from the command line or other applications, which would
>> support some new use cases.
>>
>>
>> I think the order of execution should be the order I listed them above.
>> Feedback?
>
> I don't understand the need for the third one. The logic is stills
> server-side it just uses a separate python script.
>
So far I am Ok with 1 & 2 but do not see need for 3. Please explain.


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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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