action #467
closedUpdate the webIU to control os-autoinst
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Description
The new os-autoinst signaling system need to be managed from the webUI via named pipe. Create the UI buttons and implement the client side of the JSONRPC protocol
Updated by ancorgs almost 11 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 40
- Status changed from New to In Progress
I spent a lot of time trying to make some javascript json-rpc client play nicely with our API. I finally give up and wrote a rpc proxy server side, so javascript asks the server (via AJAX) to do the real json-rpc call and to pass the result back to the browser. It should be very easy to remove that proxy and use a real javascript json-rpc in the near future, as the proxy is rather dumb.
Buttons for set_interactive, continue and step_waitforneedle are already working (not committed yet).
"Only" the needles editor is missing.
Updated by ancorgs almost 11 years ago
I pushed the new interface today and also some changes to os-autoinst itself. A new line in apache2 configuration is needed (also pushed to the template /etc, of course). I'm having a lot of problems executing os-autoinst in my system, so I cannot verify that the new interface is running smoothly in every case, but I wanted to push it in order to get feedback. It's not worse than the one we already had.
Some improvements are still needed.
I also fixed some minor issues in the needles editor by coolo request.
Updated by ancorgs almost 11 years ago
- % Done changed from 80 to 100
- Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
Updated to use the new jsonrpc centralized API instead of messaging the workers directly.
As the new API follows a new approach with the possibility of queuing/dequeuing commands, I spent some hours implementing a new interface for managing this queue in a very flexible way, but it ended being confusing and not really useful. So I dropped most of the work and implemented an improved version of the already existing good old approach.