[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Provide a way to display CLI-LDAP attribute relation

[Jan Zeleny]

Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'm sending updated patch in attachment
> 
> > > Should I change it in class help then? That's where I copied this from.
> > 
> > I think so.
> 
> Ok, I'll send another patch, so me don't mix it together with this patch.
> I'll do a review of the code in cli.py, maybe the same issue is elsewhere
> as well.
> 
> > >> This will blow up as expected in the FIXME if an unknown command is
> > >> passed in.
> > > 
> > > Fixed, thanks.
> > 
> > Not to be pedantic but I think it should return a non-zero error code
> > too on error.
> 
> Yep, replaced this with exception.
> 
> > >> ipa show-mappings user-show returns just 'rights'
> > > 
> > > If it was the acting correctly, it shouldn't be displayed at all,
> > > because it is not LDAP based (and user-show doesn't take any other
> > > LDAP-based arguments/options).
> > > 
> > > I'm just not sure how to do this with minimal changes. One option is to
> > > create new flag denoting whether parameter is LDAP based or not and for
> > > each parameter set it appropriately, but that is just too much effort
> > > for something that is not that important. That's why I use the 'webui'
> > > flag to filter things at least a little bit.
> > 
> > You should have the object Params list available, right? Can you use
> > that to show at least some attributes?
> 
> I already thought of that, but that would add only primary key, since
> Params is a concatenation of Options and Args - in args there are usually
> only mandatory arguments (i.e. primary keys, uid in case of user-show) and
> options are already iterated over and printed out.
> 
> I think adding this is too much effort. For one thing user-show takes no
> other options than --rights (and the purpose of the patch is to show
> mapping between CLI options and LDAP attributes) and user can always see
> real LDAP attributes of user object by using --raw.
> 
> Jan

Just a reminder that this patch waits for review.

Thanks
Jan