Various improvements to make the API more usable and cobbler a bit

more efficient.

Make both the Config and BootAPI objects Borgs, to prevent duplicate
configuration records.  Also do not implicitly serialize configuration
objects unless the with_copy parameter is used.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/cobbler/api.py b/cobbler/api.py
index cda4e86..212305a 100644
--- a/cobbler/api.py
+++ b/cobbler/api.py
@@ -26,14 +26,21 @@ import cexceptions
 
 class BootAPI:
 
+    __shared_state = {}
+    has_loaded = False
+
     def __init__(self):
         """
         Constructor
         """
-        self._config = config.Config(self)
-        self.deserialize()
-        self.__settings = self._config.settings()
-        self.sync_flag = self.__settings.minimize_syncs
+
+        self.__dict__ = self.__shared_state
+        if not BootAPI.has_loaded:
+            BootAPI.has_loaded = True
+            self._config = config.Config(self)
+            self.deserialize()
+            self.__settings = self._config.settings()
+            self.sync_flag = self.__settings.minimize_syncs
 
     def clear(self):
         """