Unable to set "None" valued kernel param through XMLRPC
Justin Sherrill
jsherril at redhat.com
Mon May 17 20:53:54 UTC 2010
On 5/17/10 4:43 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So currently with satellite/spacewalk we use the XMLRPC interface to set
> kernel params.
>
> If you want to set something like foo=bar, it's as simple as passing
> that key/value pair in a map as "foo":"bar". If you just want the
> parameter "foo" though with no value, there is no way to do this. The
> most sensible thing from a consumer of the XMLRPC interface is to pass
> "foo":"" where the value is an empty string. Cobbler currently renders
> this as:
>
> foo=
>
> Instead of just:
>
> foo
>
> I can easy change it to treat empty string the same as None when
> rendering the kernel params, but I wanted to get feedback to see if it
> would cause any issues. Is there any reason not to make this change?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Justin Sherrill
>
>
Actually, nevermind. It's already been fixed as part of:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2010-March/005463.html
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Software Engineer Raleigh, NC 27603
Red Hat, Inc.
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