add mkloaders view

projects/cobbler-api/src/lib/cobbler-api.service.ts

@@ -172,6 +172,21 @@ export class CobblerApiService {
         })
       );
   }
+  backgroundMkloaders(token: string): Observable<string> {
+    const mkloadersOptions: XmlRpcStruct = {members: []}
+    return this.client
+      .methodCall('background_mkloaders', [mkloadersOptions, token])
+      .pipe(
+        map<MethodResponse | MethodFault, string>((data: MethodResponse | MethodFault) => {
+          if (AngularXmlrpcService.instanceOfMethodResponse(data)) {
+            return data.value as string;
+          } else if (AngularXmlrpcService.instanceOfMethodFault(data)) {
+            throw new Error('Mkloading files on the server in the background failed with code "' + data.faultCode
+              + '" and error message "' + data.faultString + '"');
+          }
+        })
+      );
+  }
 
   background_validate_autoinstall_files(token: string): Observable<string> {
     const validateAutoinstallOptions: XmlRpcStruct = {members: []}

projects/cobbler-frontend/src/app/actions/mkloaders/mkloaders.component.html

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<h1>MKLOADERS</h1>
+
+<button mat-button (click)="runMkloaders()">Mkloaders</button>

projects/cobbler-frontend/src/app/actions/mkloaders/mkloaders.component.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
+
+import { MkloadersComponent } from './mkloaders.component';
+
+describe('MkloadersComponent', () => {
+  let component: MkloadersComponent;
+  let fixture: ComponentFixture<MkloadersComponent>;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    await TestBed.configureTestingModule({
+      imports: [MkloadersComponent]
+    })
+    .compileComponents();
+
+    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(MkloadersComponent);
+    component = fixture.componentInstance;
+    fixture.detectChanges();
+  });
+
+  it('should create', () => {
+    expect(component).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+});

projects/cobbler-frontend/src/app/actions/mkloaders/mkloaders.component.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { Component, inject, OnDestroy } from '@angular/core';
+import { UserService } from '../../services/user.service';
+import { CobblerApiService } from 'cobbler-api';
+import { Subscription } from 'rxjs';
+import { MatSnackBar } from '@angular/material/snack-bar';
+import { MatButton } from '@angular/material/button';
+
+@Component({
+  selector: 'cobbler-mkloaders',
+  standalone: true,
+  imports: [MatButton],
+  templateUrl: './mkloaders.component.html',
+  styleUrl: './mkloaders.component.scss',
+})
+export class MkloadersComponent implements OnDestroy {
+  private userSvc = inject(UserService);
+  private cobblerApiSvc = inject(CobblerApiService);
+
+  private subs: Subscription = new Subscription();
+
+  constructor(private _snackBar: MatSnackBar) {}
+
+  ngOnDestroy(): void {
+    this.subs.unsubscribe();
+  }
+  runMkloaders(): void {
+    this.subs.add(
+      this.cobblerApiSvc.background_hardlink(this.userSvc.token).subscribe({
+        next:(value) => {
+          // TODO
+        },
+        error:(error) => {
+          // HTML encode the error message since it originates from XML
+          this._snackBar.open(this.toHTML(error.message), 'Close');
+        }
+      })
+    );
+  }
+
+  toHTML(input: string): any {
+    // FIXME: Deduplicate method
+    return new DOMParser().parseFromString(input, 'text/html').documentElement
+      .textContent;
+  }
+}

projects/cobbler-frontend/src/app/app-routing.module.ts

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { AuthGuardService } from './services/auth-guard.service';
 import { SettingsViewComponent } from './settings/view/settings-view.component';
 import { UnauthorizedComponent } from './unauthorized/unauthorized.component';
 import {SignaturesComponent} from "./signatures/signatures.component";
+import { MkloadersComponent } from './actions/mkloaders/mkloaders.component';
 
 
 export const routes: Routes = [
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ export const routes: Routes = [
   {path: 'check', component: CheckSysComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuardService]},
   {path: 'status', component: StatusComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuardService]},
   {path: 'hardlink', component: HardlinkComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuardService]},
+  {path: 'mkloaders', component: MkloadersComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuardService]},
   {path: 'events', component: AppEventsComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuardService]},
   {path: 'signatures', component: SignaturesComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuardService]},
   {path: 'validate-autoinstalls', component: ValidateAutoinstallsComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuardService]},

projects/cobbler-frontend/src/app/manage-menu/manage-menu.component.html

@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ <h2 matSubheader>Actions</h2>
       <a mat-list-item class="nav-link" [routerLink]="['/hardlink']">
         <b class="symbol">&#9881;</b>Hardlink</a
       >
+      <a mat-list-item class="nav-link" [routerLink]="['/mkloaders']">
+        <b class="symbol">&#9881;</b>Mkloaders</a
+      >
       <a mat-list-item class="nav-link" [routerLink]="['/validate-autoinstalls']">
         <b class="symbol">&#9881;</b>Validate Autoinstalls</a
       >