Remove hardcoded references to rucio-ui-dev.cern.ch

[dchristidis]

Motivation

It is expected that this node will cease to exist very soon.

Modification

$ git grep rucio-ui-dev.cern.ch
lib/rucio/web/ui/static/base.js:    if (window.location.host == "rucio-ui-dev.cern.ch") {
lib/rucio/web/ui/static/http_api_usage.js:  var src = "https://rucio-ui-dev.cern.ch/kibana/#/dashboard/Rucio-RESTAPI-Account-Usage?embed&_g=("+

[nimishbongale]

Can I take this up @maany @dchristidis @bari12?

If so, do we want it to be extracted into a config file and then be replaced eventually or removed entirely?

[bari12]

Sorry for the late reply, yes please go ahead 👍

[nimishbongale]

yes please go ahead 👍

Thank you! Just to confirm, I can extract this URL string out into maybe a config.json file and refer it from there? Would that be the desired way of implementation?

[maany]

Maybe an environment variable is better in this case ( to avoid creating a file with a single configuration variable). To completely resolve this issue, we'd also have to update the Helm Chart for the UI to allow people to provide this value to the UI containers and provide the documentation to the users so they are aware of this ;) .

[nimishbongale]

Maybe an environment variable is better in this case ( to avoid creating a file with a single configuration variable). To completely resolve this issue, we'd also have to update the Helm Chart for the UI to allow people to provide this value to the UI containers and provide the documentation to the users so they are aware of this ;) .

Thanks for this, will get to work right away! 👍

[nimishbongale]

Maybe an environment variable is better in this case (to avoid creating a file with a single configuration variable)

Passing environment variables into static .js files seem a little more complicated than I had expected. The environment variable would be accessible only to my flask server, which I would have to pass into my HTML templates, via render_template, and then pass it as a query parameter into the static .js files, and access it accordingly. Is there a better way? Let me know 😄

[maany]

One way to get around this, would be to modify the docker entrypoint for the UI containers

The script should check if the environment variable for hostname is defined i.e. RUCIO_HOST. If found, it should modify the concerned js files using the sed utility.

@bari12 what do you think? also, do you agree that we can use a new environment variable called RUCIO_HOST or should we call it something else?

[nimishbongale]

docker entrypoint for the UI containers

Definitely a better way to solve this problem. Thanks for this! 👍

[bari12]

Sorry getting a bit late into this. I think you can just remove these entirely. No need to have this configurable etc.