Generalizes object blending and the concept of parentage to allow for later support

of inheritance hierarchies, as well as making more data available to koan and the kickstart
templating engine.

With this change, any variable in the tree (anywhere), is now accessible via Cheetah -- and
the same goes for koan XMLRPC.

Unit tests pass and looks okay on the outside, though this still warrants extended testing
to verify no unintended behaviors have changed.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cobbler/item_system.py b/cobbler/item_system.py
index a745ba9..8c6021f 100644
--- a/cobbler/item_system.py
+++ b/cobbler/item_system.py
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ class System(item.Item):
 
         return self
 
+    def get_parent(self):
+        """
+        Return object next highest up the tree.
+        """
+        return self.config.distros().find(self.distro_name)
+
     def set_name(self,name):
         """
         In Cobbler 0.4.9, any name given is legal, but if it's not an IP or MAC, --ip-address of --mac-address must