[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] jderose 017-2 Giant webui patch take 2

[Jason Gerard DeRose]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 15:21 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> > Okay, finally here is the revised webui patch.  Since the last version,
> > I:
> > 
> >  * Ported to various API changed between wehjit 0.0.1 and 0.1.0
> > 
> >  * Removed the session.py stuff, which will be in a separate patch
> > 
> >  * Added the plugin browser to help developers inspect the plugins
> > 
> > The webui is still in a similar "dumb" state till I extend various
> > meta-data in ipalib, which I will work on this week and will quickly get
> > the UI into a more impressive state.  I just can't let this patch get
> > any larger... stop the madness!  ;)  There currently isn't a top-level
> > webui-page at /ipa/ui, but pages exist for each command plugin,
> > i.e., /ipa/ui/user_add
> > 
> > This patch is big, but tries to be non-intrusive: the new webui stuff
> > only runs from the new lite-server.py script, not for the installed
> > version running under Apache.  As far as I know, no existing
> > functionality is disrupted by this patch.  After making the meta-data
> > changes, I will enable the new functionality under Apache also.
> > 
> > I hope everyone will find the plugin-browser quite helpful.  To run it,
> > launch lite-server.py like this:
> > 
> >   ./lite-server.py
> > 
> > And then point your browser to:
> > 
> >   http://127.0.0.1:8888/ipa/ui/Command
> > 
> > All plugins in all namespaces are available in the browser, but details
> > are currently only available for the Command and Object namespaces.  I
> > will also soon add an easy way to render the plugin browser to static
> > pages to put on freeipa.org.
> > 
> > This patch requires python-wehjit and python-assets, which are in
> > Fedora12 and rawhide.  Or you can install from tarballs here:
> > 
> >   http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/assets/current/
> > 
> >   http://jderose.fedorapeople.org/wehjit/current/
> > 
> > A couple of weekends ago I also packaged assets and wehjit for
> > Debian/Ubuntu.  Karmic packages are available in my PPA:
> > 
> >   https://launchpad.net/~jderose/+archive/ppa
> > 
> > Sorry the patch is so large, subsequent ones wont be.
> 
> ack.
> 
> rob

That's the ol' pepper.  Pushed to master.