[Fusioninventory-devel] REST API (Re: Inventory fonts)

[Kevin Roy]

Hi everyone,

On 4 April 2013 13:48, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:59:12PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > Le 03/04/2013 16:08, Gonéri Le Bouder a écrit :
> > >On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 08:06:43PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > >>Le 02/04/2013 17:54, David Durieux a écrit :
> Hello all,
>
> > The last suggested function 'runCommand' is definitevely not a good idea,
> > especially in an information-retrieval API. Unless you have some way to
> > restrict the list of allowed commands to ensure they can't be used to
> modify
> > agent host state, you'd better not play this game.
> Well, it's exactly what Deploy already do. What about a
> --i-m-unsecure-and-now-it=1 parameter to unblock such feature.
>

@goneri : this will look more like '--i-m-insecure-and-i-know-it-baby' :-)


> >
> > What is missing, however, is some getFileContent function, which is far
> less
> > dangerous.
>
> Yes, We have to implement it.
>
>
I suggest we use some kind of interface and add specific classes to handle
specific files in safe mode and we can start with registry key and font
files.
As Goneri proposed, an unsafe mode could be used to unlock and enhance
temporarily those content inventories.

Double cheers,

-- Kevin 'kiniou' Roy
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