[SSSD] Design Discussion: Periodic task API

Pavel Březina pbrezina at redhat.com
Mon May 6 09:01:46 UTC 2013


On 04/25/2013 11:18 AM, Pavel Březina wrote:
> I've been assigned ticket https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1713:
> [RFE] Add a task to the SSSD to periodically refresh cached entries
>
> I have recently created a ticket (#1891) to unite API for managing
> periodic tasks. We already quite a periodic task (enumeration, sudo,
> dyndns, #1713) when each of them implements custom API.
>
> None of these are generic enough to be used for #1713 so I will have to
> create a new one. I'm not suggesting to refactor the old code now, that
> will be done when #1891 is scheduled.
>
> But I think it is a good idea to create the generic one now instead of a
> new feature-specific. It will be basically the same amount of work.
>
> I wrote a design document:
> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/DesignDocs/PeriodicTasks

I have updated the document with following changes:

- change namespace from be_periodic_task to be_ptask
- add enum be_ptask_offline
- add be_ptask_enable
- add be_ptask_disable
- reworked "When offline" section




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