This object will allow splitting large translatable strings into more
pieces, so translators don't have to re-translate the entire text
when a small part changes.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3587
The API version the client sends can now be used to check what the client
expects or is capable of.
All version tests IPA does will be be named and listed in one module,
ipalib.capabilities, which includes a function to test a specific capability
against an API version.
Similarly to Python's __future__ module, capabilities.py also serves as
documentation of backwards-incompatible changes to the API.
The first capability to be defined is "messages". Recent enough clients can
accept a list of warnings or other info under the "messages" key in the
result dict.
If a JSON client does not send the API version, it is assumed this is a testing
client (e.g. curl from the command line). Such a client "has" all capabilities,
but it will always receive a warning mentioning that forward compatibility
is not guaranteed.
If a XML client does not send the API version, it is assumed it uses the API
version before capabilities were introduced. (This is to keep backwards
compatibility with clients containing bug https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3294)
Whenever a capability is added, the API version must be incremented.
To ensure that, capabilities are written to API.txt and checked by
`makeapi --validate`.
Design page: http://freeipa.org/page/V3/Messages
Ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2732
Python does not guarantee dict order. Our reliance on it in `makeapi`
is technically incorrect, even if it doesn't matter yet in any of our
developers' environments.
This patch sorts the options by name instead of relying on dict order.
As an added benefit, future API.txt diffs should be be neater.
Move the code for encoding boolean values to LDAP boolean syntax from the
Parameter class to the Encoder class, where the rest of LDAP encoding takes
place. Remove encoding code from the Parameter class altogether, as all LDAP
encoding should be done in the Encoder class.
Replace all occurences of create_default with equivalent default_from
and remove create_default from the framework. This is needed for
proper parameter validation, as there is no way to tell which
parameters to validate prior to calling create_default, because
create_default does not provide information about which parameters are
used for generating the default value.
This patch changes the way plugins are initialized. Instead of
finalizing all the plugins at once, plugins are finalized only after
they are accessed (currently applies to Command, Object and
Attribute subclasses, only in CLI by default).
This change provides significant performance boost, as only the
plugins that are actually used are finalized.
ticket 1336
Some Param or Output attributes do not cause API incompatibility
(e.g. doc, label or callables) and does not need to be included
in API.txt. When these attributes are modified, a lot of bogus
changes may get in API.txt - making the real API changes less
detectable.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2107
Iterate over all API commands and perform the following validation:
* Every command must have documentation
and it must be marked for international translation
* Every module hosting a command must have documentation
and it must be marked for international translation
* Every module topic must be marked for international translation
For every error found emit a diagnostic.
Emit a summary of total errors found.
Return error flag if errors found, zero otherwise.
Doc parts are not removed from the API completely. This leads to
unnecessary updates to API.txt when the option/argument documentation
is changed.
This patch replaces unreliable doc stripping function with a regular
expression. It works for all current doc strings (simple string or
GetText). The only limitation is that the RE supports only up to
2 levels of nested parentheses in doc string.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1057
Doc parts are not removed from the API completely. This leads to
unnecessary updates to API.txt when the option/argument documentation
is changed.
This patch replaces unreliable doc stripping function with a regular
expression. It works for all current doc strings (simple string or
GetText). The only limitation is that the RE supports only up to
2 levels of nested parentheses in doc string.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1057
makeapi script is used to check if ipalib API is consistent with the
known state in API.txt. When the API is changed, major API version
should be updated. However, when new options/arguments/outputs were
added to an ipalib command, `makeapi --validate' call did not capture
this.
This patch fixes this issue and ensures that also the last command
in API.txt is checked (it was not before this patch).
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/868
The API does a fair number of self tests and locking to assure that the
registered commands are consistent and will work. This does not need
to be done on a production system and adds additional overhead causing
somewhere between a 30 and 50% decrease in performance.
Because makeapi is executed when a build is done ensure that it is
executed in developer mode to ensure that the framework is ok.
ticket 751
This patch contains 2 parts.
The first part is a small utility to create and validate the current
API. To do this it needs to load ipalib which on a fresh system
introduces a few problems, namely that it relies on a python plugin
to set the default encoding to utf8. For our purposes we can skip that.
It is also important that any optional plugins be loadable so the
API can be examined.
The second part is a version exchange between the client and server.
The version has a major and a minor version. The major verion is
updated whenever existing API changes. The minor version is updated when
new API is added. A request will be rejected if either the major versions
don't match or if the client major version is higher than then server
major version (though by implication new API would return a command not
found if allowed to proceed).
To determine the API version of the server from a client use the ping
command.
ticket 584
