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, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cobbler/config.py b/cobbler/config.py
index 3444ded..3a9bd79 100644
--- a/cobbler/config.py
+++ b/cobbler/config.py
@@ -30,11 +30,25 @@ import serializer
 
 class Config:
 
+   has_loaded = False
+   __shared_state = {}
+
+
    def __init__(self,api):
+
        """
        Constructor.  Manages a definitive copy of all data collections with weakrefs
-       poiting back into the class so they can understand each other's contents
+       pointing back into the class so they can understand each other's contents
        """
+       self.__dict__ == Config.__shared_state
+       if not Config.has_loaded:
+           self.__load(api)
+           
+
+   def __load(self,api):
+
+       Config.has_loaded  = True
+
        self.api           = api
        self._distros      = distros.Distros(weakref.proxy(self))
        self._profiles     = profiles.Profiles(weakref.proxy(self))