[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0409] Warn user when ipa *-find reach search limit

[Petr Spacek]

On 26.1.2016 15:06, Martin Basti wrote:
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> On 26.01.2016 15:00, Gabe Alford wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Martin Basti <mbasti at redhat.com
>> <mailto:mbasti at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 26.01.2016 14:55, Petr Spacek wrote:
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>>         On 26.1.2016 14:02, Martin Basti wrote:
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>>             https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5634
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>>             Patch attached.
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>>         It works for me in API, CLI, and Web UI. The warning is shown
>>         as expected.
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>>         Interestingly, Web UI behaves strangely when search limit is
>>         hit. This needs
>>         more investigation because it happens even without this patch :-)
>>
>>     I found different bug there, webUI passes sizelimit: 0
>>     (unlimited), but this values is not passed to some searches inside
>>     BaseldapSearch which raise error, I will file a ticket na provide
>>     details there
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>> Works for me as well. However, it would be nice to have what ipasearchlimit
>> is limited to in the error message as well. So something like:
> thanks for testing.
> 
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>> "Search result has been truncated, the current search limit is set to 10.
>> Please increase the search limit."
> Well this is not so easy to achieve in framework, I prefer not to add number
> there, it requires bigger change in framework or an extra ldap search.
>>
>> Does this also address https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4022?
> It should.

Maybe we can use some generic phrase like:
"Search result has been truncated to configured search limit."
and avoid advice like 'increase search limit' which may not be possible to do,
e.g. because user does not have permission to do that etc.

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Petr^2 Spacek