[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0336 rpcserver: Consolidate __call__ in xmlclient and jsonclient_kerb

[Rob Crittenden]

Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 05:11 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> See commit message & ticket.
>>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4069
>>
>> Our handling of XML-RPC introspection is iffy as it is and this would
>> remove those methods completely. Can you add them back into the
>> xmlserver class?
>
> Not just iffy, it's non-existent. See
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2937.
> The patch removes the __system dict which has been unused since at least
> Jason's web UI work in 2009, Git tells me. The patch did leave the
> actual methods.
>
>
> Well, actually it's not that hard to get these working again; see
> attached patch (which can be reviewed separately).
>

Ack for both.

As an aside, I noticed that we no longer display the server we're trying 
to contact in verbose mode (ipa -vv). This was often help in diagnosing 
problems, particularly with the fallback routines. Not related to these 
patches though.

rob