[Freeipa-devel] Is there RPC documentation?

Petr Vobornik pvoborni at redhat.com
Wed Feb 26 16:18:17 UTC 2014


On 26.2.2014 16:53, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 04:45 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> I'm working on adding support for freeipa DNS to openstack designate
>> (DNSaaS).  I am assuming I need to use RPC (XML?  JSON?  REST?) to
>> communicate with freeipa.  Is there documentation about how to construct
>> and send RPC messages?
>
> The JSON-RPC and XML-RPC API is still not "officially supported" (read:
> documented), though it's extremely unlikely to change.
> If you need an example, run any ipa command with -vv, this will print
> out the request & response.
> API.txt in the source tree lists all the commands and params.
> This blog post still applies (but be sure to read the update about
> --cacert):
> http://adam.younglogic.com/2010/07/talking-to-freeipa-json-web-api-via-curl/
>
>

Web UI communicates with API through JSON-RPC so you can open browser 
developer tools (F12) and inspect requests/responses in network tab.
-- 
Petr Vobornik




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