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

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Wed Jan 19 17:20:02 UTC 2011


Adam Young wrote:
> 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.
>

You can open a ticket and put it into the deferred bucket for future.

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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