[Freeipa-devel] CSV support in IPA administration tools - to be, or not to be?

Petr Viktorin pviktori at redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 08:59:37 UTC 2013


On 01/10/2013 05:11 PM, John Dennis wrote:
> On 01/10/2013 10:23 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
>> AFAIU, the API will not change as we do the CSV processing only on
>> client side
>> and send processed entries to the server. CSV processing on old
>> clients should
>> still work fine.
>
> Is that really true? I thought I remembered CSV parsing logic inside the
> plugins.
>

No. CSV parsing now only happens on the client. For example, when using 
the Web UI no CSV is involved at all.

This would be a CLI change, not an API one. But I guess we need a policy 
for CLI changes, too.

-- 
Petr³




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