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

Nathaniel McCallum npmccallum at redhat.com
Fri Feb 28 14:25:39 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 10:47 +0100, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> 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.

If we parse on the server side, how do we handle the long-running
operation? Think of the case of importing hundreds or thousands of
tokens...

Nathaniel




More information about the Freeipa-devel mailing list