XMLRPC API : how to modify dict data

[Alain Barthe]

Hello,

I'm new to this list, I'm new to cobbler too : great tool !

I want to create a system from a non cobbler host through XMLRPC. I followed
the wiki and I am ableto create it and to set some scalar value as it is
described in https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/CobblerXmlrpc.

But I have to set ks_meta variable that is a sort of dictionary. I tried
several ways without success :

COBSERVER.modify_system(cobid, 'ks_meta', "{'ip':
'165.7.120.253',
'netmask': '255.255.255.0', 'hostname': 'blade04',
'gateway': '165.7.120.33'}",
TOKEN)
COBSERVER.modify_system(cobid, 'ks_meta', 'ip=165.7.120.253 netmask=
255.255.255.0 hostname=blade04 gateway=165.7.120.33', TOKEN)
and the same as above with different quoting styles.

The error message is always the same and seems to be weird :

xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "exceptions.NameError:global name '_' is not
defined">

By reading the remote.py code, I noted maybe a bug in copy_* function, for
example :

    def copy_profile(self,object_id,token=None):
        self.log("copy_profile",object_id=object_id,token=token)
        self.check_access(token,"copy_profile")
        obj = self.__get_object(object_id)
        return self.api.copy_profile(obj,newname)

It seems that the "newname" parameter is missing.

Thanks for your help !

Alain.