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Chapter 5. API Information

New APIs

  • errata.publishAsOriginal
    Publishes an existing, unpublished, cloned erratum to a set of cloned channels according to the original erratum
  • errata.cloneAsOriginal
    Clones a list of errata into a specified cloned channel according the original erratum

Modified APIs (interface changes only)

  • channel.software.getDetails(sessionKey, channelLabel)
    Added last_modified attribute
  • channel.software.getDetails(sessionKey, id)
    Added last_modified attribute
  • channel.software.listChildren
    Added last_modified attribute
  • kickstart.listKickstartableChannels
    Added last_modified attribute
  • system.getSubscribedBaseChannel
    Added last_modified attribute
  • system.listSubscribedChildChannels
    Added last_modified attribute
  • system.listSystemEvents
    Added scheduler_user attribute (BZ#653305)

APIs Recently Deprecated

  • None

APIs Recently Removed

APIs are very rarely removed. If new functionality is required, new API calls will be introduced.
  • None

API Bugs

This is a list of Bugzillas that have affected APIs.
  • BZ#644700
    API -> configchannel.lookupFileInfo fails for files with escape characters
  • BZ#648640
    [RFE] Add a check-box option to disable fuzzy-string search
  • BZ#688509
    System status is always shown as up to date if its base channel was cloned using API
  • BZ#644880
    Possibility to assign 64 package into 32 channel by channel.software.addPackages
  • BZ#663490
    Using Satellite API to download packages generates a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
  • BZ#653305
    listSystemEvents fails when errata update scheduled by (none)
  • BZ#640958
    org.setSoftwareFlexEntitlements vs org.setSoftwareEntitlements, setting reg. ent. set flex to zero and vice-versa
  • BZ#640928
    system.convertToFlexEntitlement, redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: unhandled internal exception: java.lang.Integer incompatible with java.lang.Long
  • BZ#639134
    Satellite API call 'listSystemsWithPackage' disregards package architecture
  • BZ#658653
    Satellite java.lang.OutOfMemoryError when bigger then 500 systems for Guests Consuming Regular Entitlements
  • BZ#645842
    API call configchannel.lookupFileInfo() does not return 'macro-start-delimiter' and 'macro-end-delimiter'
  • BZ#620578
    Satellite 5.3: RHN API call errata.publish pushes all packages in errata into target channel regardless of RHEL release (e.g., RHEL 5 pkgs into RHEL 4 channel)