Public bug reported: While testing the authenticating REST proxy, it is necessary to clear out the uid table. In normal operation, we never delete rows from this table, to ensure that uids are never duplicated. However, when a user is deleted in the proxy test suite, its uid entry is never cleaned up.
This thread discusses several options: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mailman.devel/19733 Yet another option would be to expose <api>/reserved/uids/orphans and if you DELETE that resource, all uids not associated with users will be removed from the table. It's a bit crufty in that I think we may be abusing the DELETE method (since <api>/reserved/uids/orphans will still exist after the successful operation), but since this is a testing-only method, I think it's fine. Not sure we need to implement GET, or subresources, but we could if it turns out we need that for testing purposes. Also, DELETEing .../orphans means that the ill effects of accidentally calling this on a real server are minimized. At worst, uids could be reused, but that's unlikely given our use of uuid4(). ** Affects: mailman Importance: High Status: Triaged ** Tags: mailman3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1420083 Title: Provide a reserved url for clearing out the uid table To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1420083/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailman-coders mailing list Mailman-coders@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-coders
