[Freeipa-devel] RFC: freeipa-asterisk plugin

[Petr Vobornik]

On 11/02/2012 03:35 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 10:15 AM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>> On 11/02/2012 02:36 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>>> On 11/02/2012 12:25 AM, Loris Santamaria wrote:
>>>> El jue, 01-11-2012 a las 12:47 -0400, Dmitri Pal escribió:
>>>>> On 11/01/2012 11:32 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 09:30 -0430, Loris Santamaria wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> we plan to write a freeIPA configuration plugin for Asterisk,
>>>>>>> aiming to
>>>>>>> be general and useful enough to be included in Fedora and EPEL,
>>>>>>> so we
>>>>>>> would like to have your input on some issues before we write any
>>>>>>> code.
>>>
>>>> How one should integrate optional components with the Web UI?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah this is a gray area to me to. I would love to see a clear doc on
>>> this too.
>>> Petr, is this doable?
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Speaking of packaging, reading
>>>>>>> http://abbra.fedorapeople.org/guide.html
>>>>>>> it doesn't seems clear to me how to have an extra category of
>>>>>>> configuration pages added to the Web UI without modifying the
>>>>>>> main IPA
>>>>>>> page. What is the proper way to add extra pages to the web UI ?
>>>>>> I will let the UI expert reply on this point.
>>>>>>
>>
>> Do you target existing releases (up to 3.0) or some next?
>>
>> In versions 2.2 and 3.0 not-touching existing Web UI sources might not
>> be doable. You will have to put some code into ext/extension.js which
>> is blank file, marked as configuration file and is loaded with the
>> rest of Web UI.
>
> I do not think it is worth targeting existing versions.
>
>>
>> You will face two problems:
>>
>> 1) Load extension code.
>> Currently Web UI has all links to JS sources hard coded in index.html.
>> You can put all your code into extension.js or you have to put there a
>> code which will dynamically load your JS file.
>>
>> 2) Register entity and update navigation
>> You need to update navigation to display a link for the new pages.
>> It's not straightforward without touching webui.js. I doubt that
>> anybody done it before.
>>
>> I can help you with it if needed.
>>
>> IMO we should eliminate both issues to allow extending Web UI just by
>> adding files to some directory.
>
> Please file a ticket. I would argue it will be the goal for the Pilsner
> release to address it.

Tickets for both issues filed:

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3235
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3236
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Petr Vobornik