[Freeipa-devel] Structured DNS record API proposal

[Adam Young]

This discussion got me thinking, always a dangerous proposal:

We are currently exposing record add with the lie  that  when you add a 
record, it has a type.  THe reality is that a record is just this big 
collection of multi value attributes, and each of those  is the "type"  
of the record.


If all of the 'records'  have the same idnsname, then they really fall 
under the same Record object in LDAP.

What if we focuses on the attribtutes themselves, and add the type info 
there.


Pie in the sky proposal.   Treat it as a starting point:

 From the webui perspective
dnsrecord-add   allows the case where it just has the the idnsname with 
no "records"

dnsrecordattr-mod  takes record type specific values.

To add a location entry:

ipa dnsrecordattr-mod --append location --lat-deg=INT --lat-min=INT --lat-sec=FLOAT --lat-dir=ENUM --lon-deg=INT --lon-min=INT --lon-sec=FLOAT --lon-dir=ENUM --alt=FLOAT --h-precision=FLOAT --v-precision=FLOAT


And to remove it

ipa dnsrecordattr-mod --remove location --lat-deg=INT --lat-min=INT --lat-sec=FLOAT --lat-dir=ENUM --lon-deg=INT --lon-min=INT --lon-sec=FLOAT --lon-dir=ENUM --alt=FLOAT --h-precision=FLOAT --v-precision=FLOAT

mod2 is expected to work on a single attribute at a time.