[Freeipa-devel] Structured DNS record API proposal - summary

[Martin Kosek]

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 13:17 -0400, Adam Young wrote:
> On 09/23/2011 11:52 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > Adam Young wrote:
> >> On 09/23/2011 02:02 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 22:05 -0400, Adam Young wrote:
> >>>> On 09/22/2011 08:31 PM, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
> >>>>>> OPEN QUESTION: should we implement these new commands also for
> >>>>>> discrete
> >>>>>> DNS records types to be consistent? I mean for example A, AAAA, 
> >>>>>> CNAME,
> >>>>>> PTR, ... They would look like
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ipa dnsrecord-aaaa-add --ip-address=IPAddress
> >>>>>> BENEFITS of this approach (command per RR type):
> >>>>>> - use can get all help for RR type by simply typing "ipa help
> >>>>>> dnsrecord-mx-add"
> >>>>>> - we would be able to implement helper methods consistently on one
> >>>>>> place, for example:
> >>>>>> dnsrecord-aaaa-add --from-mac=00:1D:BA:06:37:64
> >>>>> If we have this for all record types the UI can use a generic code to
> >>>>> figure out which command to use. Everything will be in this pattern:
> >>>>> dnsrecord-<rrtype>-add/mod/del<primary keys> [parameters*]
> >>>> We won't have it for all types, so we will need a map. Most will use
> >>>> the old API, and a few will use the pattern above
> >>> I think to make this all as consistent as possible, new API shall be
> >>> implemented for all types (except unsupported and DNSSEC ones). Rob did
> >>> agree with this approach too.
> >>>
> >>> Martin
> >>>
> >>
> >> We need to be able to display even the unsupported types, as they might
> >> end up in the Database. We can work around that limitation.
> >>
> >
> > IMHO if we can't manage them we shouldn't show them.
> >
> > rob
> 
> Yeah, probably.  If you can guarantee it from the server side, I'm OK 
> with that.
> 

I can. We don't have them allowed in the schema as bind-dyndb-ldap
plugin does not support them.

Martin