9.1.4.1.5. cobbler.modules.serializers package

9.1.4.1.5.1. Submodules

9.1.4.1.5.2. cobbler.modules.serializers.file module

Cobbler’s file-based object serializer. As of 9/2014, this is Cobbler’s default serializer and the most stable one. It uses multiple JSON files in /var/lib/cobbler/collections/distros, profiles, etc

Copyright 2006-2009, Red Hat, Inc and Others Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan AT gmail>

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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cobbler.modules.serializers.file.deserialize(collection, topological: bool = True)[source]

Load a collection from file system.

Parameters:

  • collection – The collection to deserialize.

  • topological – If the collection list should be sorted by the collection dict key ‘depth’ value or not.

cobbler.modules.serializers.file.deserialize_raw(collection_types: str)[source]

Loads a collection from the disk.

Parameters:

collection_types – The type of collection to load.

Returns:

The loaded dictionary.

cobbler.modules.serializers.file.register() → str[source]

The mandatory Cobbler module registration hook.

cobbler.modules.serializers.file.serialize(collection)[source]

Save a collection to file system

Parameters:

collection – collection

cobbler.modules.serializers.file.serialize_delete(collection, item)[source]

Delete a collection item from file system.

Parameters:

  • collection – collection

  • item – collection item

cobbler.modules.serializers.file.serialize_item(collection, item)[source]

Save a collection item to file system

Parameters:

  • collection – collection

  • item – collection item

cobbler.modules.serializers.file.what() → str[source]

Module identification function

9.1.4.1.5.3. cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb module

Cobbler’s Mongo database based object serializer. Experimental version.

Copyright 2006-2009, Red Hat, Inc and Others Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan AT gmail> James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb.deserialize(collection, topological: bool = True)[source]

Load a collection from the database.

Parameters:

  • collection – The collection to deserialize.

  • topological – If the collection list should be sorted by the collection dict depth value or not.

cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb.deserialize_raw(collection_type: str)[source]

Get a collection from mongodb and parse it into an object.

Parameters:

collection_type – The collection type to fetch.

Returns:

The first element of the collection requested.

cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb.register() → str[source]

The mandatory Cobbler module registration hook.

cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb.serialize(collection)[source]

Save a collection to database

Parameters:

collection – collection

cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb.serialize_delete(collection, item)[source]

Delete a collection item from database.

Parameters:

  • collection – collection

  • item – collection item

cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb.serialize_item(collection, item)[source]

Save a collection item to database.

Parameters:

  • collection – collection

  • item – collection item

cobbler.modules.serializers.mongodb.what() → str[source]

Module identification function

9.1.4.1.5.4. Module contents

This module contains code to persist the in memory state of Cobbler on a target. The name of the target should be the name of the Python file. Cobbler is currently only tested against the file serializer.