Bug 1937856

Summary:	Switch ipa-client to use the JSON API
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	ipa-qe <ipa-qe>
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Version:	8.5	CC:	amore, pcech, rcritten, ssidhaye, tscherf
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
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Last Closed:	2021-11-09 18:22:22 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Rob Crittenden 2021-03-11 16:23:26 UTC

Description of problem:

IPA provides two RPC protocols: XML-RPC and JSON.

With 8.4.0 the only IPA-provided tool, ipa-join, will use the XML-RPC service.

It has had the capability to use JSON since the upstream 4.9.0 release and has been in use in Fedora with no issues for half a year.

To enable JSON we need to replace 

%bcond_without ipa_join_xml

with

%bcond_with ipa_join_xml

We should also be able to drop the build and runtime dependency on xmlrpc-c.

This will not change the RPC protocols available to the server. It will only affect the protocols we utilize internally.

Comment 7 anuja 2021-07-02 10:33:41 UTC

In RHEL8.4 it 
Requires:
libxmlrpc.so.3()(64bit)
libxmlrpc_client.so.3()(64bit)
libxmlrpc_util.so.4()(64bit)

In RHEL8.5 with
ipa-client-4.9.5-1.module+el8.5.0+11411+d272e903.x86_64.rpm
Dependency of libxmlrpc is removed.

Comment 8 anuja 2021-07-02 10:50:19 UTC

In RHEL8.4 
ipa-client-4.9.2-4.module+el8.4.0+11156+94d209c1.x86_64.rpm
Requires: 
libxmlrpc.so.3()(64bit)
libxmlrpc_client.so.3()(64bit)
libxmlrpc_util.so.4()(64bit)
xmlrpc-c >= 1.27.4

In RHEL8.5
ipa-client-4.9.5-1.module+el8.5.0+11411+d272e903.x86_64.rpm
Dependency is removed. 
Based on this marking bug as verified.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 18:22:22 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-2021:4230