Bug 1513934

Summary:	[RFE] Supportability of the IdM API
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	François Cami <fcami>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	Antonio Torres <antorres>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Sudhir Menon <sumenon>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Filip Hanzelka <fhanzelk>
Priority:	high
Version:	9.3	CC:	antorres, asharov, bhdesai, ccallaha, cheimes, cobrown, dchen, dminnich, dmittal, dvozenil, fhanzelk, ftrivino, gkaihoro, lsantiag, mfalz, mkosek, pasik, pvoborni, rcritten, sumenon, tscherf
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release:	9.3	Flags:	ofalk: needinfo-
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	ipa-4.10.1-6.el9	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	.Identity Management API is now fully supported The Identity Management (IdM) API was available as a Technology Preview in RHEL 9.2. Since RHEL 9.3, it has been fully supported. Users can use existing tools and scripts even if the IdM API is enhanced to enable multiple versions of API commands. These enhancements do not change the behavior of a command in an incompatible way. This has the following benefits: * Administrators can use previous or later versions of IdM on the server than on the managing client. * Developers can use a specific version of an IdM call, even if the IdM version changes on the server. The communication with the server is possible, regardless if one side uses, for example, a newer version that introduces new options for a feature. NOTE:: While IdM API provides a JSON-RPC interface, this type of access is not supported. Red{nbsp}Hat recommends accessing the API with Python instead. Using Python automates important parts such as the metadata retrieval from the server, which allows listing all available commands.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-11-07 08:34:04 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description François Cami 2017-11-16 10:19:02 UTC

As per:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298286
"As a Developer of a Product, I want to call a specific version of API call, without being affected by higher or lower version of the IdM server than my testing instance so that the Product is not dependent on a specific IdM server version and respective changes"

the IdM API provides versioned calls so that a Product using the API will not be affected by API changes.

The API is described in:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2728021

However, it is currently not supported (technology preview).

Would it be possible to support it formally?

Comment 39 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:34:04 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (ipa bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:6477