[Freeipa-devel] Client-side command in the IPA framework

[Petr Vobornik]

On 28.2.2014 04:02, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
>>> So the recent discussion on importing tokens led me to write a script to
>>> parse RFC 6030 xml files into IPA token data. This all works well. But
>>> now I need to integrate it into the IPA framework.
>>>
>>> This command will parse one or more xml files, creating a set of tokens
>>> to be added. Given that we already have otptoken-add on the server-side,
>>> it seems to me that all work needs to be done on the client-side. How do
>>> I create a new client-side command that calls existing server-side API?
>> subclass from frontend.Local, override run() or forward() method and
>> perform batch
>> operation of otptoken_add from there.
>>
>> See cli.help, for example.
>
> If you do an override, do forward() for cli-specific work.
>
> But you should do as little as possible for reasons you already stated:
> the UI. Anything you do in forward Petr will need to implement in the UI.
>
> Unfortunately we don't yet have a nice way to handle files. We have
> tickets open at https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1225 and
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2933
>
> If this file is something that would be pasted into a big text field
> then you can probably handle it in a similarly clumsy way that we do
> CSRs in the cert plugin.
>
> rob

+1 for parsing it on server. Otherwise every client, not just CLI or Web 
UI, would have to reimplement the same logic - having it on server will 
support better integration with third party products.

Parsing on client would be understandable if there was some middle step 
which would require some action from user, i.e, pick only some tokens to 
import.
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Petr Vobornik