# Authors: # Adam Young # Rob Crittenden # # Copyright (c) 2010 Red Hat # See file 'copying' for use and warranty information # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as # published by the free software foundation; version 2 only # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of # merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the # gnu general public license for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the gnu general public license # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA """ Plugin to make multiple ipa calls via one remote procedure call To run this code in the lite-server curl -H "Content-Type:application/json" -H "Acept:applicaton/json" -H "Accept-Language:en" --negotiate -u : --cacert /etc/ipa/ca.crt -d @batch_request.json -X POST http://localhost:8888/ipa/json where the contenst of the file batch_request.json follow the below example {"method":"batch","params":[[ {"method":"group_find","params":[[],{}]}, {"method":"user_find","params":[[],{"whoami":"true","all":"true"}]}, {"method":"user_show","params":[["admin"],{"all":true}]} ],{}],"id":1} THe format of the response is nested the same way. At the top you will see "error": null, "id": 1, "result": { "count": 3, "results": [ And then a nested response for each IPA command method sent in the request """ from ipalib import api, errors from ipalib import Command from ipalib import Str, List from ipalib.output import Output from ipalib import output from ipalib.text import _ class batch(Command): INTERNAL = True takes_args = ( List('methods?', doc=_('Nested Methods to execute'), ), ) has_output = ( Output('count', int, doc=_('')), Output('results', list, doc=_('')) ) def execute(self, *args, **options): results=[] for arg in args[0]: try: a = arg['params'][0] kw = arg['params'][1] newkw = {} for k in kw: newkw[str(k)] = kw[k] result = api.Command[arg['method']](*a, **newkw) result['error']=None except Exception, e: result = dict() result['error'] = unicode(e) results.append(result) return dict(count=len(results) , results=results) api.register(batch)