[Freeipa-devel] Issues inizializing api

[Jan Cholasta]

Dne 30.6.2015 v 12:29 Simo Sorce napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 11:47 +0200, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Dne 27.6.2015 v 00:21 Simo Sorce napsal(a):
>>> If I try to create a custom api with something like:
>>> myapi = create_api(mode=None)
>>> myapi.finalize()
>>>
>>> I get back a stacktrace in the aci plugin.
>>>
>>> The aci plugin assumes the general 'api' has been already inizialized
>>> and dereferences directly api.env.container_user and other stuff.
>>>
>>> Do I always have to api.finalize() before creating new api objects ?
>>> Is there a way to load only the env (all I am really interested in)
>>> without loading any plugin ?
>>
>> The bootstrap method initializes env:
>>
>> myapi = create_api(mode=None)
>> myapi.bootstrap()
>>
>
> That's not what I am saying.
>
> What I am saying is that if you *do not* finalize "api", then when you
> try to finalize any other myownapi thing you built via create_api() it
> blows up, because (at least) the aci module references directly "api",
> but "api" is not finalized yet and does not have the env attributes the
> aci plugin tries to use.
>
>
> Try this:
>
> python
>> from ipalib import api, create_api
>> myapi = create_api()
>> myapi.finalize()
>
> This ^^^ breaks.
>
> However if you do:
>> from ipalib import api, create_api
>> myapi = create_api()
>> api.finalize()
>> myapi.finalize()
>
> This works, as "api" has been finalized.

I see. Unfortunately, this is a limitation that has not been removed yet 
- there is a lot of old code that references ipalib.api directly which 
needs to be fixed.

-- 
Jan Cholasta