[pdm-devel] applied-series: [PATCH datacenter-manager 0/6] ui/api: implement and expose adding PBS remotes via the ui wizard

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:09:52 +0200, Christian Ebner wrote:
> While it is already possible to add PBS remote via the cli, the UI currently
> does not expose this functionality. Most of the required pieces are however
> already there, so implement the missing api endpoints to check the TLS
> connection and scan the remote for the PDM api and add the required methods to
> the PDM client.
> 
> Finally, make sure the correct PDM implementation for PBS is used based on the
> remote type as stored in the remote add wizard state and expose the button
> to add the PBS instance.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

btw. some pre-existing things that I noticed with the remote add wizard,
certainly do not have to be fixed by you, just wanted to jot them down before I
forget them. Anyway:

- One can use a full URL with https:// and trailing slash and the probe will
  work fine, but on the final step of the wizard one will get an error about a
  invalid character in the URL. Would be great if this works (or does not work)
  consistently for probing and actual usage; e.g. by stripping default
  protocol, single trailing slash or default port (or whatever is required to
  make it work).

- after going back just to edit the URL the whole wizard gets reset, that is
  not really that nice. It's not a trivial thing to solve in an always correct
  way, so maybe ask the user about wanting to reset the wizard? But IMO most of
  the time all data one entered was entered with the intend for it to actually
  be correct, so fixing small typos should probably not reset anything by
  default, as what's the upside here? A compromis might be to deactivate the
  next steps but retain the values, that way all intra-step checks will be
  executed but an user does not needs to re-enter information.

- The URL won't be updated when going back from the summary page of the wizard
  to the first and changing it. At least the same old value was rendered in the
  summary and when then going back again to the first step the outdated value
  was again shown there too (and I got the error from the backend, but did not
  check if the same was actually send, might have had another "error" in the
  URL).

[1/6] server: api: add TLS probe endpoint for PBS
      commit: 239d0eb0cb13eac72686e6c337eb328e8bd0182c
[2/6] pdm-client: add method to probe TLS connection for PBS remotes
      commit: a9837ef08c1082dd6d282dadafd35144b97ddc63
[3/6] server: api: implement endpoint to scan remote PBS instances
      commit: bdb844b271e8397b0346a66f4bf8d1d877f402d3
[4/6] pdm client: add method to scan remote PBS instances
      commit: 645a92d5d6fd0817b059c2a7197be20506e8c1be
[5/6] ui: remote: check connection for PBS remotes in remote add wizard
      commit: 6ce9dcad2b8ec7eb218ce41e18f8942d02dfa3ef
[6/6] ui: reorganize remote add button as dropdown menu to allow adding PBS
      commit: 62a96d23363b8fc6fb2342dd868a8a76f1aab937