[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 039 Delete the whole DNS record with no parameters

[Adam Young]

On 01/24/2011 09:51 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> Sorry, I don't know enough about the WebUI to give an authoritative
> answer. I'll try to summarize the changes I did, if it doesn't answer
> your question, please catch me on IRC:-)
>
> The only change to the API is a new option "del_all" that specifies that
> the caller wants to delete the whole DNS record.
>
> Calling dnsrecord-add and dnsrecord-del with no options is now
> disallowed. See my reply to Rob's email for more details.
>
> The return value of dnsrecord-del changed for the case the whole record
> is deleted - now it returns the same value other -del commands do, which
> in the Python CLI world is a dictionary that contains entries we failed
> to delete.
I think that this won't change anything UI based.  If you want to delete 
all of the records for a given Zone, you would just select all of them 
in the UI, so it would be an exhaustive list.  To select them all, we 
have  UI control that toggles all of the checkmarks.