[Engine-devel] [BUG] in UserMapper.java in 3.3.2

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/02/2014 05:00 PM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was able to track this down, thanks to the help
> of Omer Frenkel:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045484
>
> However it did cost me several days to find out what
> went wrong, and I'd like to make some suggestions to
> prevent such errors in the future or make them at least
> documented somewhere:
>
> It turned out, that the JSON implementation which at
> least started in 3.1. was not complete and not supported.
>
> This was not documented anywhere (at least where I looked).
>
> So what can we do to improve this?
>
> My suggestions would be:
>
> 1. If a new feature gets developed and (partly) released
> the exact status of this feature should be documented in
> the wiki/release notes/code/wherever
>
> e.g. feature x does work via webadmin, REST-API
> it does not work via java-sdk, python-sdk and CLI
> it does work with data passed via XML and not with
> data passed via JSON.

considering we are working on moving the UI to work over the REST API, 
this will soon "go away"...

>
> 2. To automate the check if the feature works as intended one
> could write jenkins jobs, e.g.:
>
> start a vm via rest-api with json data
>
> if it fails this feature does not work.
>
> I know that my second suggestion is quite a bit of work
> but ovirt would greatly benefit from the achieved robustness
> and bugs would be very much more easily traceable.
>
> what do you think?
>