[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Add failover to the XML-RPC client

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 19:04:21 UTC 2008


Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:50 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:49 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>> Took Simo's advice and added a new XML-RPC function, ping(), that we can 
>>>> use just to see if the remote server is up and answering.
>>>>
>>>> Modified the config class to be able to return multiple servers in a 
>>>> list. We simply run thru that list each time a new rpcclient is 
>>>> instantiated.
>>> Can we add an argument to both the client and the server?
>>> It would be useful to be able to exchange the cli/srv versions through
>>> this command for future use:
>>>
>>> ping <cli-version>
>>> pong <srv-version>
>>>
>>> Simo.
>>>
>> I think that is a nice-to-have for later. Neither the server nor client 
>> currently have any knowledge of versions of anything.
> 
> The idea is exactly to be able to recognize we are using outdated tools
> (or too much up to date ones :) later. Maybe there are other means
> too ...
> 
> Simo.

I know what the purpose is but it is more than just sticking a number 
somewhere for it to actually do what we want. I don't think that needs 
to hold things up.

rob

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