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

[Adam Young]

On 01/19/2011 12:06 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> 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.
>> You just want to rename the directory in the git tree?
>>
>>> 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.
>> I'm ok with that, it's just 2 files.
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the order of execution should be the order I listed them above.
>>> Feedback?
>> I don't understand the need for the third one. The logic is stills
>> server-side it just uses a separate python script.
>>
> So far I am Ok with 1&  2 but do not see need for 3. Please explain.

I think I can drop 3, as the existing migrate.py will work OK.

>
>> rob
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