[Freeipa-users] Backend & UI plugin update for 4.4.x

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On to, 19 tammi 2017, Steve Huston wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy at redhat.com> wrote:
>> In short, FreeIPA 4.2 -> 4.4 change was by splitting server and client
>> side plugins into different paths (ipaserver/plugins and
>> ipaclient/plugins instead of being common in ipalib/plugins). The client
>> code was also changed to always read metadata about API from the server
>> side. This means the client can adopt to any server version that
>> supports API metadata.
>
>Right, and I think that the most of the plugin I had belongs
>server-side; in fact, that's where I migrated it to, and things work
>fine.  I haven't tested if I can change those values with the cli, but
>I'm less concerned about that at the moment.
>
>> In my sample external plugin you referenced above you can see that I
>> have client-side change that replaces an input string by a file
>> reference so that a file can supplied instead of typing the content of
>> the file on the command line. This is one of most used patterns for
>> client side plugins.
>
>In this case, my biggest problem is with the web UI.  The 'manager'
>drop down (which I have renamed through the UI plugins to "Requested
>By" to show what user requested and is responsible for this account)
>works fine in the 'add/modify stageuser' context, but not at all in
>the adduser/moduser context, and I can't seem to find out why.
I'll defer answer for this to our web UI wizards but they would need to
see your code to help, I'd guess.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy