[Gluster-devel] Non-Uniform opErrstr output in all gluster --xml commands

[Avra Sengupta]

On 08/05/2015 03:06 PM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>
> On 08/05/2015 02:58 PM, Avra Sengupta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218732, in
>> the event where there is no opErrstr, some gluster commands'(like
>> snapshot status, volume status etc.) xml output shows
>> "<opErrstr>(null)</opErrstr>", while other commands show just
>> "<opErrstr/>". This non-uniform output is troublesome for people who
>> parse this.
>>
>> IMHO showing "<opErrstr>(null)</opErrstr>" is much more descriptive. I
>> would like to propose making sure all commands follow this uniform
>> approach, instead of displaying just "<opErrstr/>".
> Makes sense to me as long as its uniform. However the existing ones
> which follow "<opErrstr/>" need change in parsing logic :
To attain uniformity, one or the other parsing logic will break. we 
might as well get it right for once.
>> Regards,
>> Avra
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