[Freeipa-users] extracting info and injecting info

[Adam Young]

On 06/14/2011 04:33 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That's excellent....it wont be me but our IdM developers...who will want to look, since its Oracle IdM I suspect Java type stuff but im clueless on programming......I can hand this to them when they ask.

JSON is much friendlier, and it is what the webUI uses:

I do it all the time.  Here's my write up.

http://adam.younglogic.com/2010/07/talking-to-freeipa-json-web-api-via-curl/
> thanks
>
> regards
> ________________________________________
> From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com] on behalf of Stephen Gallagher [sgallagh at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 11:48 p.m.
> To: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] extracting info and injecting info
>
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 04:18 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
>> At a high level, I just need an idea how this will/could work....
>>
>> We have a centralised provisioning system that (eventually) we need to
>> talk to IPA.   So the sort of things I need to extract are the
>> available user groups and hosts and that then would be displayed in the
>> IdM system. At that point  the user admin would create the user and
>> select the groups and hosts the user can interact with...how does the
>> external program query IPA? langauge? etc ? and then inject user info?
> An external program can use the XLM-RPC interface to perform IPA queries
> and updates. This is what the 'ipa' command-line tool does behind the
> scenes.
>
> It's not very readable, but you can take a look at
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=freeipa.git;a=blob_plain;f=API.txt;hb=HEAD to see the API specification.
>
> There's a python API included with FreeIPA as well. See
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=freeipa.git;a=blob;f=doc/examples/python-api.py;h=60578e805fb5f2b440ba204c5adbac62e8415c2b;hb=HEAD
> for an example of how to start using this API.
>
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