[Freeipa-devel] Rename insta//static to install/ui

[Dmitri Pal]

Adam Young wrote:
> I've been working with Kyle Baker to implement the cleanup of the
> migration and the error reporting pages.  One thing that is messing us
> up is the fact that the URL as exposed on the server is different than
> the file structure.  I'd like to propose the folowing changes:
>
>
> First:  rename install/static to install/ui.
>
> I wanted to use this name from the get go, but there was a conflict
> with the wsgi based ui.  It has been gone for a long enough time now
> that the rename should cause no conflicts.
>
> Second:  merge the html directory into the ui directory.
>
> We need them to be separate originally because the UI was getting
> authentication, but the error messages and so forth were not.  NOw,
> none of the ui gets authenticated, only the JSON RPC.
>
> Third:  make an RPC url that we can call without authentication.
>
>   The migration page is the last thing we have that uses server side
> scripting.  I'd like to complete the work of splitting UI from
> business logic.  However, the migration code needs to make an RPC
> unauthenticated.  Right now this is the only page that needs to do so,
> but we could potentially have others.  If we made a parallel structure
> for xml rpc and json RPC that could be called unauthenticated, we
> could also perform the migration from the command line or other
> applications, which would support some new use cases.

Is this really required. Can we use what is there now?
I am not sure I want to spend any cycles on such a major shift at this
stage of the project.
Can we just polish what we have for migration page for now and address
this in 2.1?

>
>
> I think the order of execution should be the order I listed them
> above.  Feedback?
>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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