[Freeipa-devel] [design] add nsupdate output format to dns-update-system-records

[Jan Cholasta]

On 27.1.2017 22:45, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> On 01/27/2017 01:37 PM, Martin Basti wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm working on adding support of nsupdate format to output of `ipa
>> dns-update-system-records` command, that will allow to copy&paste output
>> to nsupdate utility and update IPA DNS records on external server. I
>> propose following:
>>
>> 1) new option --nsupdate-format
>>
>> This option will replace standard output with nsupdate format output.
>> Feel free to propose better name.
>>
>>
>> 2) client or server side plugin?
>>
>> I'd like to implement this behavior only at client side. But this will
>> not work in cases when only server api or RPC calls are used. Do you
>> think that we should support this uses case (in server side plugin)?
>>
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
>
> The main ideal was to allow piping into nsupdate. i don't remember if
> server side returns in human readable form or in structured way. If in
> structured, then implementation in client side plugin would make better
> sense.
>
> +1 to Alexander on '--out nsupdate' option

+1 to both --out and client-side implementation.

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Jan Cholasta