Hi Gordon,
I'm not on the cobbler team, just another user. So I can't give any
info about xapi_object_edit. Cool find though.
The timing I gave before was for modifying an existing system, I didn't
look at the sample code close enough to see it was doing a new system.
Sorry about that.
You probably don't need it but this is what I did. It does the
serialization, it just doesn't seem expensive in the scheme of things.
my $xmlrpc = XMLRPC::Lite -> proxy('https://<host>/cobbler_api');
# Login to cobbler xmlrpm and get session token back.
my $system = "linux5.2";
my $token = $xmlrpc->login("user", "pwd")->result();
my $test_machine = $xmlrpc->get_system_handle($system, $token)->result();
die "test machine $system not found" if !$test_machine;
$xmlrpc->modify_system($test_machine, "netboot_enabled", "1",
$token);
my $result = $xmlrpc->save_system($test_machine, $token)->result();
-Kevin
Gordon Child wrote:
Kevin,
Thank you for your response.
I was actually trying to edit an existing system. But it looks like I was doing this
wrong. I was calling get_item_handle and then calling modify_system.
I just found the xapi_object_edit method. I can edit a system easily this way without
the expensive serialization of the item handle.
my $result = $xmlrpc->xapi_object_edit("system", "system-name",
"edit", {netboot_enabled=>1}, $token)->result();
I didn't see the xapi_object_edit method in the wiki... can it be added or is it
hidden functionality? (I did see some FIXME's in there)
-Gordon
On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Kevin Connor wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> I don't see it taking a long time in perl:
>
>
> real 0m0.473s
> user 0m0.133s
> sys 0m0.021s
>
> I used the demo code here (search for bonus example):
>
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/CobblerXmlrpc
>
> -Kevin
>
> Gordon Child wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I'm trying to modify the netboot_enabled value on a system using the
>> remote api.
>>
>> I've tried to use the modify_system function however it seems to
>> require the actual object rather than the name of the system. This is
>> rather expensive to serialize. (may be quick in python, but using
>> perl's XMLRPC::Lite it takes a long time).
>>
>> Can modify_system be changed to take the system name rather than the
>> system object?
>>
>> In the interim I've added a call that does the reverse of what already
>> exists for kickstart files... however, this is somewhat of an issue
>> because *anyone* can call this (and reinstall your machine)
>>
http://cobbler.example.com/cblr/svc/op/*pxeon*/system/cobbler-test.exampl...
>>
>> Comments, suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gordon Child
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