Bug 535514 (RHQ-2200)

Summary: Remote API - Perform version check between client and server
Product: [Other] RHQ Project Reporter: Jay Shaughnessy <jshaughn>
Component: Core ServerAssignee: John Mazzitelli <mazz>
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Version: 1.3CC: mazz
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URL: http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-2200
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Fixed In Version: 1.4 Doc Type: Enhancement
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: 833198 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-09-01 19:19:54 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 534378, 833198    

Description Jay Shaughnessy 2009-06-30 20:09:00 UTC
The client zip will be packaged by and downloadable from the server.  Therefore the bundled client zip will always be compatible.  But this does not ensure that connecting clients are compatible.  If possible we should perform some sort of version handshake when connecting via the API.  Perhaps the login method could pass version information or something in that arena...



Comment 1 Charles Crouch 2009-09-03 16:09:09 UTC
(11:00:27 AM) ccrouch: joseph, mazz: where did this discussion get on http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-2200 yesterday
(11:00:40 AM) ccrouch: is this something we can support with just a serverside change in the future?
(11:06:49 AM) mazz: ccrouch: we agreed to push 2200 out

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-11-10 20:59:50 UTC
This bug was previously known as http://jira.rhq-project.org/browse/RHQ-2200


Comment 3 wes hayutin 2010-02-16 15:49:56 UTC
mass move off of the qa rhq_triage queue, these are dev subtasks

Comment 4 John Mazzitelli 2012-06-15 19:55:31 UTC
best to add the version checking in RemoteClient since this will allow for the version checking to be performed not only for our CLI but also any remote client built using our Java API.

The code to do this version checking should be done somewhere in RemoteClient.doConnect().

Comment 5 John Mazzitelli 2012-06-15 21:32:56 UTC
git commit to master: 66fd59f

the remote client will not connect to the server if the server is not supported. for this commit, "not supported" means the server and cli/remote client aren't the same version.

We can later change this behavior if we deem it necessary. For example, maybe we can change it so if the MAJOR version is different we abort, otherwise let it connect. Or maybe if the MAJOR and MINOR is the same but only the PATCH version is different, we let it connect.

Right now, if ANYTHING is different (major/minor or patch version #), the client won't connect.

Note that if you want to force the client to connect and ignore the version check, you can do this. You can force the connect to success and skip the version check if, in your rhq-cli-env.sh, you add this:

RHQ_CLI_ADDITIONAL_JAVA_OPTS=-Drhq.client.version-check=false

If you wrote your own Java client, in the VM that is running RemoteClient, you can set that system property as shown above (to the value of false) to skip the check

Comment 6 Heiko W. Rupp 2013-09-01 19:19:54 UTC
Bulk closing of BZs that have no target version set, but which are ON_QA for more than a year and thus are in production for a long time.