I know I don’t have much skin in the game here, but I also agree with this
change.
Having to convert it back into the proposed format as we speak.
This would definitely change the way things are called for the better.
>
> On Jun 22, 2023, at 10:08 AM, Najib . <aounina...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
> Its really awesome that Guacamole can be called using REST API, this makes it
> incredibly powerful and flexible. However there some pain points and
> improvements possible
>
> The connection and connection group response bodies are a rather big JSON.
> They don’t use the array type and the keys contain the actual values of the
> connection identifier. Any JSON parser will panic trying to decipher them. Is
> there a reason why such JSON file is created for these two types whereas
> others respect proper JSON formatting? See below for what a better reponse
> body would look like.
> I couldn’t find it but there seems to be no API endpoint for forcing a logout
> for the user. I know you can kill any or all sessions for a user and their
> connection permissions rendering them seeing an empty page. However if the
> IdP also blocks them from getting a new token this can never happen in the
> current situation as long as the user stays logged on. A logout API call
> would solve this.
>
> I would like to add this is not complaining about Guac. I truly love this
> solution and all the people contributing to it its truly the silent MVP in
> the tech world and you guys are doing amazing work. But when you truly love
> something you also want it to become better.
>
> Before;
> {
> "11": {
> "name": "AD Jump Hosts - External Users",
> "identifier": "11",
> "parentIdentifier": "ROOT",
> "type": "ORGANIZATIONAL",
> "activeConnections": 0,
> "attributes": {
> "max-connections": null,
> "max-connections-per-user": "10",
> "enable-session-affinity": ""
> }
> },
> "1": {
> "name": "Emergency Access - AD Jump Hosts",
> "identifier": "1",
> "parentIdentifier": "ROOT",
> "type": "ORGANIZATIONAL",
> "activeConnections": 0,
> "attributes": {
> "max-connections": null,
> "max-connections-per-user": null,
> "enable-session-affinity": ""
> }
> }
> }
>
> After:
> [
> {
> "name": "My connection Group A",
> "identifier": "11",
> "parentIdentifier": "ROOT",
> "type": "ORGANIZATIONAL",
> "activeConnections": 0,
> "attributes": {
> "max-connections": null,
> "max-connections-per-user": "10",
> "enable-session-affinity": ""
> }
> },
> {
> "name": "My connection Group B",
> "identifier": "1",
> "parentIdentifier": "ROOT",
> "type": "ORGANIZATIONAL",
> "activeConnections": 0,
> "attributes": {
> "max-connections": null,
> "max-connections-per-user": null,
> "enable-session-affinity": ""
> }
> }
> ]
>
>
