[Freeipa-devel] Is there RPC documentation?

[Rich Megginson]

On 02/26/2014 02:19 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Rich Megginson wrote:
>> On 02/26/2014 08:53 AM, 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/ 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok.  Next question is - how does one do the equivalent of the curl
>> command in python code?
>
> Here is a pretty stripped-down way to add a user. Other commands are 
> similar, you just may care more about the output:
>
> from ipalib import api
> from ipalib import errors
>
> api.bootstrap(context='cli')
> api.finalize()
> api.Backend.xmlclient.connect()
>
> try:
>     api.Command['user_add'](u'testuser',
>                             givenname=u'Test', sn=u'User',
>                             loginshell=u'/bin/sh')
> except errors.DuplicateEntry:
>     print "user already exists"
> else:
>     print "User added"
>

How would one do this from outside of ipa?  If ipalib is not available?