freeipa/ipaserver
Petr Viktorin 24bca144a8 Add client capabilities, enable messages
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
2013-02-21 16:26:09 +01:00
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install Allow ipa-replica-conncheck and ipa-adtrust-install to read krb5 includedir 2013-02-18 16:50:28 +01:00
plugins Implement the cert-find command for the dogtag CA backend. 2013-02-19 11:52:33 -05:00
__init__.py Change FreeIPA license to GPLv3+ 2010-12-20 17:19:53 -05:00
dcerpc.py Avoid internal error when user is not Trust admin 2013-02-20 13:23:58 -05:00
ipaldap.py Provide 'protocol' argument to IPAdmin 2012-11-23 12:19:20 +01:00
rpcserver.py Add client capabilities, enable messages 2013-02-21 16:26:09 +01:00