[Freeipa-devel] Automount API consistancy and WebUI searchs

[Adam Young]

The general pattern for finding something is

<entityname>_find FILTER

And for nested entities is

<entityname>_find PARENTKEY FILTER

So for Automount it is

automountlocation_find FILTER

automountmap_find LOC FILTER

So Key should be

automountkey_find LOC MAP FILTER


The show command should then be

<entityname>_show PKEY

<entityname>_show PARENTKEY PKEY

So for Automount it should be

automountlocation_show LOC

automountmap_show LOC MAP

so key should be

automountkey_show LOC MAP KEY



For the key, in both cases it is not this.  Instead, the whole keyand 
the whole --info (mountpoint) must be specified for the show command.    
On the find side there is an indication that the parameters should be 
--info and --key, but FILTER seems to work correctly.

It seems that the key should be unique within a map.  Is there any good 
reason to require the --info parameter when showing keys?  Instead, it 
only enforces that a pair be unique.  Since automount triggers if 
someone browsers to a specific directory, I thought that the option of 
which to choose would have to be deterministic:  if I go to 
/home/ayoung, It ought to always mount nfsserver:/home/ayoung.  What am 
I missing.