[Pulp-list] Client Refactoring

[James Slagle]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:23:07AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 04:59 AM, James Slagle wrote:
> >I've put up a wiki page about the client refactoring stuff I'm working on.
> >It's at:
> >https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/ClientRefactoring
> >
> >I've gotten some initial feedback from jdob and have revised it a bit to
> >incorporate those changes.  Please review it when you have a moment and
> >feel free to send me any feedback.
> 
> I'm currently using the client libraries to talk to a Pulp backend
> from another Python web app (what will eventually become the next
> generation of Red Hat's internal GlobalSync tool) and I think this
> refactoring will help with that (as the web app part of GlobalSync
> really only needs the API access component). A model based approach
> should also help with code reuse on my end, as it should be easier
> to have common code that just passes client models around for later
> rendering via model specific templates.
> 
> It's not directly related to this refactoring, but two other client
> side features I'm working on are support for talking to multiple
> Pulp servers from a single client (the plan is for the main
> GlobalSync web app to be able to see and manage a tree of Pulp
> servers spanning multiple sites) and the use of OAuth for the client
> authentication.
> 
> These are already possible via subclassing and then overriding
> relevant methods, but it would be nice if the refactored API
> supported them natively.

Will do, I've got this requirement recorded.  Thanks for the feedback.

I'm going to schedule a deep dive to go over some of these changes, probably
either next week or the following one, I'll be sure you're on the invite in
case you'd like to sit in.

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-- James Slagle
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