[PyCS-devel] Additional info on pycsAdmin

[Georg B. <gb...@mu...>]

Hi!

One point I forgot: since it uses XML/RPC, one could write a GUI tool to
administer PyCS using for example Python/TK or other GUI tools. So this
might help in getting it up and running easier, especially if we pull more
functionality into the pycsAdmin namespace.

Functions currently return a dictionary with the following keys:

flError: a flag that tells you wether it was an error
message: a "Done!" message or the error message if it was an error
columns: a list of column names
table: a list of list of values (like a resultset from a database)

columns and table are optional, but if they occur, they occur together.
For example help has ['command', 'description'] in the columns value and
[['help','show ...'],...] as the table value.

As said, the interface might change, if others have better ideas how to do
it. The main idea with this stuff is to enable using standard OS
mechanisms to trigger administrative functionality in the server and to
allow the server to define what functionality is available. And it solves
the non-multiuser-ness of Metakit.

bye, Georg