This class was built into the framework from its early days but it's
not used anywhere.
Remove it along with its tests

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3460

Reviewed-By: Jan Cholasta <jcholast@redhat.com>

Part of the effort to port FreeIPA to Arch Linux,
where Python 3 is the default.

FreeIPA hasn't been ported to Python 3, so the code must be modified to
run /usr/bin/python2

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3438

Updated by pviktori@redhat.com

Modify ipalib.rpc to support JSON-RPC in addition to XML-RPC.
This is done by subclassing and extending xmlrpclib, because
our existing code relies on xmlrpclib internals.

The URI to use is given in the new jsonrpc_uri env variable. When
it is not given, it is generated from xmlrpc_uri by replacing
/xml with /json.

The rpc_json_uri env variable existed before, but was unused,
undocumented and not set the install scripts.
This patch removes it in favor of jsonrpc_uri (for consistency
with xmlrpc_uri).

Add the rpc_protocol env variable to control the protocol
IPA uses. rpc_protocol defaults to 'jsonrpc', but may be changed
to 'xmlrpc'.
Make backend.Executioner and tests use the backend specified by
rpc_protocol.

For compatibility with unwrap_xml, decoding JSON now gives tuples
instead of lists.

Design: http://freeipa.org/page/V3/JSON-RPC
Ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3299

Several Commands were missing the 'version' option. Add it to those
that were missing it.

Do not remove the version option before calling commands. This means
methods such as execute(), forward(), run() receive it.
Several of these needed `**options` added to their signatures.
Commands in the Cert plugin passed any unknown options to the underlying
functions, these are changed to pass what's needed explicitly.
Some commands in DNS and Batch plugins now pass version to commands
they call.

When the option is not given, fill it in automatically. (In a subsequent
commit, a warning will be added in this case).

Note that the public API did not change: all RPC calls already accepted
a version option. There's no need for an API version bump (even though
API.txt changes substantially).

Design page: http://freeipa.org/page/V3/Messages
Tickets:
  https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2732
  https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3294

Having float type as a base type for floating point parameters in
ipalib introduces several issues, e.g. problem with representation
or value comparison. Python language provides a Decimal type which
help overcome these issues.

This patch replaces a float type and Float parameter with a
decimal.Decimal type in Decimal parameter. A precision attribute
was added to Decimal parameter that can be used to limit a number
of decimal places in parameter representation. This approach fixes
a problem with API.txt validation where comparison of float values
may fail on different architectures due to float representation error.

In order to safely transfer the parameter value over RPC it is
being converted to string which is then converted back to
decimal.Decimal number on a server side.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2260

"Extending FreeIPA" is a developer guide of FreeIPA core framework.
Please make sure to improve the guide every time parts of the core framework
are affected by your changes. This document ideally should correspond to
the current state of the framework.

The Guide is written using Emacs Org Mode but can be edited with any
plain text editing tool. Emacs is only required to convert it to
distribution formats like HTML and TXT.

See guide/Makefile for building the guide and README for details of
the build environment.

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1128