[Freeipa-devel] Reasons for not using certmonger DBus API

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Martin Kosek wrote:
>On 07/23/2014 09:56 AM, David Kupka wrote:
>> While solving ticket #4280 I noticed that we are messing with certmonger's
>> files right under its hands. That can lead to some unpleasant race condition
>> issues.
>> Is there any reason why not to call certmonger via DBus and ask it to stop
>> tracking the requests?
>
>+1 for using the dbus API. When I saw the hacky way of parsing certmonger
>internal configuration files in ipapython/certmonger.py, I suggested the dbus
>way as IMO it would not be difficult to implement, it would make us more future
>proof and it would remove intermittent problems like #4280.
>
>Certmonger API looked complete enough to pull this off:
>https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/certmonger.git/tree/doc/api.txt
>
>If I am wrong, please tell me.
Were there DBus Python bindings available in RHEL 5/6 at the time when the
code was written?

Anyway, it looks good target to rewrite this code to use DBus these
days.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy