[VCL-78] API for backend to allocate computers for block reservations via the frontend

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: web gui (frontend)
• Assignee: Josh Thompson
• Reporter: Josh Thompson
• Created: 04/Feb/09 19:28
• Updated: 17/Jun/09 17:35
• Resolved: 17/Jun/09 17:35

Description

Currently, the backend does all of the allocation of computers to fulfill block reservations. This causes a fair amount of code to be duplicated from the frontend. An API needs to be added to the frontend to allow the backend to request that the frontend do the allocation instead.