On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:09 PM, James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:32 PM, James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> This was changed due to the fact that both cobblerd and things > >> interacting with the API might write files at the same time and the > >> other would have no clue about it. This lead to a lot of weird race > >> conditions and data loss, so it was decided everything should be done > >> through cobblerd over xmlrpc. I have at times considered writting a > >> REST API for cobbler, however I have not done so as I don't think > >> there's any real demand for it. > > > > Thanks for the clarification James. Is there any point then in still > having > > the API or mentioning of it anyway? Would it not be less confusing to > > archive mentioning of it on the wiki and concentrate on xmlrpc in the > wiki? > > I would be happy to do the legwork to get it done if there is enough > > consensus. > > Probably wouldn't be a bad idea, knowledge of the boot api is only > really required if you'd want to replace XMLRPC with some other > system. Feel free to tackle it :) > Done, I have removed mentioning of the API on https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/DeveloperDocs. and I have updated the old API page to refer to the this email thread. Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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