On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:20:15 -0400, Stephen Potter <s...@unixsa.net> wrote: > On 3/24/2011 9:52 AM, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:52:14 +0000, Jonathan > > Underwood<jonathan.underw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is this different behaviour expected/by design, or have the cli and > >> web interfaces diverged somewhat? > > It isn't expected, but it is known. Basically the web interface doesn't > > have a good mechanism for telling what you actually changed, so it saves > > everything. You basically end up with getting the defaults of the web > > interface. I don't have any good thoughts on how to fix it at this time > > though. > > Both the CLI and the web interface should give the same defaults. As I > remember the original post, the only things that were set with the CLI > were the host name and the profile, everything else was default. It > isn't a matter of knowing what was changed, the defaults should still be > the same defaults no matter what the interface.
The nature of the web interface is that it fills out the web page with everything that it gets back from cobblerd in the xmlrpc response. Then it sends back the edit request with everything it gets from the web page. So you end up with things getting set that the user never intends to set. I don't really know of any way to fix this. I've been considering trying to fix this at the xmlrpc layer, but we would have to do session handling and that is slightly undesirable. If anyone has ideas on how to fix this, I'd be open to hearing them. Basically we would need to figure out how to do lossless translation between the various formats used (internal cobbler, xmlrpc, web). -- Scott Henson Red Hat CIS Operator WVU Alum BSAE/BSME
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