[Pulp-list] Client Refactoring

[Jay Dobies]

On 07/20/2011 09:23 PM, 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.

+1

The way the server is effectively used as a global variable is really 
bad. Programmers learned that lesson years ago, not sure why we did that  :)

> Regards,
> Nick.
>


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