On 09/20/2011 11:11 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
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?
I think that is the case anyway. Since a DNS record is really just an
multivalue attribute, you would now have to do a dns-record-mod with
the list of all LOC records that you don't want to delete. I used this
as an example because it is the most complex case.
Just thinking it through...I'm not certain I like the "one command per
record type" as it changes a lot of other assumptions. DNS is a wierd
beast already.
I've spent a lot of time on the DNS ui, and it is pretty tricky to get
right. I'm trying to balance the PI against efficient usage.
What we really need for the fields is a way to specify the format for a
given field, much like the format strings used for group names. For
example, the LOC record is really
<owner> <TTL> <class> LOC d1 [m1 [s1]] {"N"|"S"} d2 [m2 [s2]] {"E"|"W"}
alt["m"] [siz["m"] [hp["m"] [vp["m"]]]]
And all the WebUI needs is a way to specify that format to validate.
We need a better approach than setattr/add attr, but it should not be
specific to the DNS use case. Let me frame the problem this way:
Extend the IPA plugin API to allow for multivalue attributes, composed
of multiple fields, where the fields can have format strings.
Solve this design issue, and the DNS design becomes an application of it.
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