Allow export template to be sent to a URL

[jasjukaitis]

Peering Manager version

v1.5.3-dev

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

-> Easy update of the autonomous system on RIPE IRR with a push of a button when peering connections are updated.
-> Before syncing, they can inspect the rendered body for validation.
-> Users can have multiple maintainers on RIPE IRR.

Use case

-> Saving time
-> Less error-prone
-> Easy to use

Database changes

-> New model to store passwords

External dependencies

No response

[gmazoyer]

The export template feature introduced in 1.7.0 can help in solving this issue. It still lacks the export to URL (or whatever) feature. So I'll leave this issue open, and update its title to better match the current missing bits.

[cron2]

Just came across this. This would indeed be a very nice feature to have. IRR aut-num objects notoriously get out of sync with real-world peerings, so having this integrated would do wonders for data quality :-)

[Paktosan]

I would propose to have a new django-admin command that would render a template and send it somewhere as a HTTP POST.
For this, the template would have to render to a JSON document containing the URL, headers and body for the request.
One could then have a systemd-timer (or other way of automatic execution) to render and send the template whenever they need to.
This may be adaptable to write the output to a local file instead.

I think I could implement that.

[rinsekloek]

Hi, what's the status of this request ?

[gmazoyer]

I think the best way to tackle this would be to leverage the code that has been written for the webhook feature. With a bit of rework, I think we could implement this.