[Freeipa-devel] programmer documentation

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Milan Kubík wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm curious, is there some documentation of the IPA internals?
>
>During my playing with plugins, I was quite amazed and frustrated
>at the code, not entirely (or remotely) understanding what happens
>after the call to a command starts and before I get the result.
>
>The main problem I have is that the command takes an argument.
>This argument gets automagically into LDAP, where it quite often is
>an attribute with a different name, and as the output of the command
>I get an object that has yet another name for the value I just sent
>to the command.
>
>Is there some (easy to understand) guide how this works, complete with
>the callback mechanism, etc?
>
>In general, where to search for $SUBJ and who to bug when it is missing
>or out of date? I know there is quite extensive tutorial to writing plugins
>in ipalib/__init__.py, but nowhere there are pre/post operation callbacks
>explained nor the format of the command output described (that I know of).
>Is there some guide that could even a newcomer use to get started?
>
>Can you point me to some documentation or designs for the framework itself,
>if it exists?
Did you read my (outdated) guide already?
https://abbra.fedorapeople.org/freeipa-extensibility.html

It is first link in the
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Documentation#Additional_Resources_2 section
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/ Alexander Bokovoy