[Freeipa-users] inserting users via java

[Martin Kosek]

On 05/28/2015 07:10 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/26/2015 03:19 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
>>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On 03/26/2015 07:37 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
>>>>> Thanks everyone for the input.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do agree that I don’t like the sound of option 1. I don’t want to be sending CLI commands from a remote host. And option 3 sounds sounds a bit brittle to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2 sounds like the most solid option available right now. I like the fact that there’s an existing/working API there. I’ll need to look into converting my objects into json.
>>>>>
>>>>> This area honestly seems like one of the weakest aspects of freeipa. There really needs to be a way to push known person entities into the directory easily.
>>>> There may be some disconnect, the JSONRPC/XMLRPC API is the way we still see as an easy way to manipulate the entries (besides CLI and Web UI). In Python, adding new user is that easy:
>>>>
>>>> ~~~
>>>> from ipalib import api
>>>> from ipalib import errors
>>>>
>>>> api.bootstrap(context='cli')
>>>> api.finalize()
>>>> api.Backend.rpcclient.connect()
>>>> api.Command['user_add'](u'newuser', givenname=u'New', sn=u'User')
>>>> ~~~
>>>>
>>>> What way would you suggest to make it more conforming to your use case? Are you suggesting REST interface doing the above or something else?
>>> Oh, I think the JSON option is the best one currently available. But I do think REST-ful service would be a good idea.
>>>
>>>> I would be willing to test option 4 if that is where the future is headed.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, just note that this still means LDAP interface a need to talk in LDAP protocol.
>>> This may not be a bad thing if you’re using an ORM like Webobjects/EOF or Cayenne since you can model those ldap entities and simply set their attributes and insert. At a lower level JNDI will handle it. I personally prefer this over building strings, sending commands, etc.
>>
>> So this will be ready upstream within several weeks or so. Would you test it once it it is available before the official upstream release?
>
> Hi Dmitri - following up on this to see how progress is going on this project. I am definitely still interested in testing this. In the meantime, I have been pursuing http client calls posting json. And I have some questions I need to pursue on that as well. Should I take this to freeipa-devel?

Hello Timothy,

I am sorry we did not update this thread, but in the end we decided not to 
invest in the REST interface ourselves at this moment (read - FreeIPA 4.2), but 
rather work on stabilizing and documenting current JSON-RPC API we have as we 
believe the API is easily usable from major languages even though it is not 
RESTy. To prove our point, we need good documentation of it and examples for 
the major languages.

This is the proposal of what shall be done in FreeIPA 4.2 that I sent to 
freeipa-devel:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2015-April/msg00061.html

I hope the way we go for the next release is acceptable for you. In the mean 
time, if you have specific questions on calling JSON from your programs, both 
freeipa-users and freeipa-devel may be suitable, depending on how deep you want 
to go in the code...

HTH,
Martin