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

[Adam Young]

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.