[Freeipa-devel] [ui-devel-tool] Updating and creating Web UI .json files

[Petr Vobornik]

I have created a helper tool (script) for updating 
install/ui/test/data/*.json files which are used for offline 
presentation of FreeIPA Web UI. So I'm sharing it as it might be useful 
for others.

Main purpose:
* updating ipa_init*.json files (should replace old not-working bash script)
* creating new *.json files when implementing new UI functionality
* updating existing files when modifying UI.

Pros:
* command definition is very easy - just copy it from Chromium or other 
developer tool a paste it into the code (with little text around).

How it works:
* user can define commands - concrete command with name, arguments and 
options

then it can
* call the command (using curl) and get JSON response from IPA server
* modify the response
* save response to file
* or print response to console

Current modification of response:
* replaces dns, domains, hostname from IPA server's to dev.example.com
* removes principal and version (no more various GIT versions)
* removes trailing whitespaces

Additional functionality:
* possibility to define command groups
* can execute multiple commands or groups
* list defined commands and groups

Common usage:
ipa-json.py -v -d -s --methods method_name method_2_name

or type 'ipa-json.py -h' for more options

note: command and method mean basically the same, the naming should be 
united...

Possible future enhancements:
* add kerberos authentication
* split definition of methods, code and configuration to multiple files

-- 
Petr Vobornik
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