On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:02 -0400, Adam Young wrote: > This discussion got me thinking, always a dangerous proposal: > > We are currently exposing record add with the lie that when you add a > record, it has a type. THe reality is that a record is just this big > collection of multi value attributes, and each of those is the "type" > of the record.
The way I see it is that we have different types of Resource Records with a (domain) name that can be shared. > > > If all of the 'records' have the same idnsname, then they really fall > under the same Record object in LDAP. Yes. > > What if we focuses on the attribtutes themselves, and add the type info > there. I thought we do this already. > > > Pie in the sky proposal. Treat it as a starting point: > > From the webui perspective > dnsrecord-add allows the case where it just has the the idnsname with > no "records" > > dnsrecordattr-mod takes record type specific values. > > To add a location entry: > > ipa dnsrecordattr-mod --append location --lat-deg=INT --lat-min=INT > --lat-sec=FLOAT --lat-dir=ENUM --lon-deg=INT --lon-min=INT --lon-sec=FLOAT > --lon-dir=ENUM --alt=FLOAT --h-precision=FLOAT --v-precision=FLOAT > > > And to remove it > > ipa dnsrecordattr-mod --remove location --lat-deg=INT --lat-min=INT > --lat-sec=FLOAT --lat-dir=ENUM --lon-deg=INT --lon-min=INT --lon-sec=FLOAT > --lon-dir=ENUM --alt=FLOAT --h-precision=FLOAT --v-precision=FLOAT So if user would want to remove a LOC record, he would have to pass all these attributes to refer which attribute value to remove? > > mod2 is expected to work on a single attribute at a time. > I don't think this is good, dnsrecordattr would then have to accept all possible DNS parts from all supported structured DNS records, i.e. if you'd run "ipa dnsrecordattr-mod --help" you would get a list of DNS parts from LOC (you wrote the options above), KX, NAPTR, etc. which would be handled by dnsrecordattr. Each RR type should have its own command, as I proposed. Then if user wants to add a LOC record, he can just execute: # ipa dnsrecord-loc-add --help CLI then offers a list of options for all parts of the structured DNS record. I designed it this way so that it keeps current DNS API and is consistent with the rest of the record. I think that proposed interface for adding is OK, Adam Tkac acked it too. I just wasn't sure how to help webui show structured DNS record (fill the fields/parts from the "raw" structured DNS record) and how to modify. Proposed API is in the mail you replied to. Martin _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel
