[Freeipa-devel] Structured DNS record API proposal - summary

[Adam Young]

On 09/23/2011 11:52 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Adam Young wrote:
>> On 09/23/2011 02:02 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 22:05 -0400, Adam Young wrote:
>>>> On 09/22/2011 08:31 PM, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
>>>>>> OPEN QUESTION: should we implement these new commands also for
>>>>>> discrete
>>>>>> DNS records types to be consistent? I mean for example A, AAAA, 
>>>>>> CNAME,
>>>>>> PTR, ... They would look like
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ipa dnsrecord-aaaa-add --ip-address=IPAddress
>>>>>> BENEFITS of this approach (command per RR type):
>>>>>> - use can get all help for RR type by simply typing "ipa help
>>>>>> dnsrecord-mx-add"
>>>>>> - we would be able to implement helper methods consistently on one
>>>>>> place, for example:
>>>>>> dnsrecord-aaaa-add --from-mac=00:1D:BA:06:37:64
>>>>> If we have this for all record types the UI can use a generic code to
>>>>> figure out which command to use. Everything will be in this pattern:
>>>>> dnsrecord-<rrtype>-add/mod/del<primary keys> [parameters*]
>>>> We won't have it for all types, so we will need a map. Most will use
>>>> the old API, and a few will use the pattern above
>>> I think to make this all as consistent as possible, new API shall be
>>> implemented for all types (except unsupported and DNSSEC ones). Rob did
>>> agree with this approach too.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>
>> We need to be able to display even the unsupported types, as they might
>> end up in the Database. We can work around that limitation.
>>
>
> IMHO if we can't manage them we shouldn't show them.
>
> rob

Yeah, probably.  If you can guarantee it from the server side, I'm OK 
with that.