On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:20:15 -0400, Stephen Potter
<spp(a)unixsa.net>
wrote:
> On 3/24/2011 9:52 AM, Scott Henson wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:52:14 +0000, Jonathan
Underwood<jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is this different behaviour expected/by design, or have the cli
and
> >> web interfaces diverged somewhat?
> > It isn't expected, but it is known. Basically the web interface
> > doesn't have a good mechanism for telling what you actually
changed,
> > so it saves everything. You basically end up with getting the
> > defaults of the web interface. I don't have any good thoughts on
how to fix it at this time though.
>
> Both the CLI and the web interface should give the same defaults. As
> I remember the original post, the only things that were set with the
> CLI were the host name and the profile, everything else was default.
> It isn't a matter of knowing what was changed, the defaults should
> still be the same defaults no matter what the interface.
The nature of the web interface is that it fills out the web page with
everything that it gets back from cobblerd in the xmlrpc response. Then
it sends back the edit request with everything it gets from the web
page. So you end up with things getting set that the user never intends
to set. I don't really know of any way to fix this. I've been
considering trying to fix this at the xmlrpc layer, but we would have
to do session handling and that is slightly undesirable.
If anyone has ideas on how to fix this, I'd be open to hearing them.
Basically we would need to figure out how to do lossless translation
between the various formats used (internal cobbler, xmlrpc, web).
A possible solution is to use jQuery to save the original data of the input elements. And
during a submitting only include the input elements that are changed. If detecting changes
is implemented with a class then pending changes on the page can even be highlighted with
css.
There are a couple of (dirty) form plugins available for jquery that can be used.
Peter
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