[Freeipa-users] IPA 4.1.0 in RHEL 7.1

[Erinn Looney-Triggs]

On 03/12/2015 01:46 PM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 03/12/2015 07:24 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>> On 03/12/2015 02:10 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>> Dne 12.3.2015 v 08:25 Martin Kosek napsal(a):
>>>> On 03/11/2015 09:05 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>>>>> On 03/11/2015 03:15 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>> Third, there appears to be a behavior change from in ipalib.
>>>>>> I cleaned up a little inventory script for ansible, you can
>>>>>> take a look at it here:
>>>>>> https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/plugins/inventory/freeipa.py
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>> Before RHEL 7.1 the call to api.Command.hostgroup_find()['result']
>>>>>> on line 30 worked, now it fails:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "./freeipa.py", line
>>>>>> 133, in <module> list_groups(api) File "./freeipa.py", line
>>>>>> 71, in list_groups result =
>>>>>> api.Command.host_find()['result'] File
>>>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line
>>>>>> 439, in __call__ ret = self.run(*args, **options) File
>>>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line
>>>>>> 755, in run return self.forward(*args, **options) File
>>>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line
>>>>>> 776, in forward return
>>>>>> self.Backend.rpcclient.forward(self.name, *args, **kw) File
>>>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/rpc.py", line 880,
>>>>>> in forward command = getattr(self.conn, name) File
>>>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/backend.py", line
>>>>>> 97, in __get_conn self.id,
>>>>>> threading.currentThread().getName()) AttributeError: no
>>>>>> context.rpcclient in thread 'MainThread'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this expected? Is this a regression?
>>>>>
>>>>> Some things changed. I would leave for developers to take a
>>>>> look and provide more guidance.
>>>>
>>>> Erinn, it may help us if you share the whole sequence how you
>>>> bootstrap and authenticatoin the API. Honza, was there any
>>>> related change causing ^^^?
>>>>
>>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3299
>>>
>>> There is api.Backend.xmlclient.connect() in the code, but JSON-RPC
>>> is now used by default. This can be fixed by calling
>>> api.Backend.rpcclient.connect() instead.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, is this backwards compatible? Or will I need to run a check
>> for the IPA version?
> 
> Unfortunately, I do not think this is backwards compatible. I would
> suggest compatibility code like:
> 
> try:
>     client = api.Backend.rpcclient
> except AttributeError:
>     # Compatibility with FreeIPA < 4.0
>     client = api.Backend.xmlclient
> 
> client.connect()
> 
> Sorry for inconvenience.
> 
> Martin

That's fine, it happens, thanks for all the information.

-Erinn