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

Avra Sengupta asengupt at redhat.com
Wed Aug 5 10:50:28 UTC 2015


In that case will stick with <opErrstr/> for all the null elements.

On 08/05/2015 04:10 PM, Prashanth Pai wrote:
> Having (null) is not common in xml convention. Usually, it's either
>
> <opErrstr/>
>
> or
>
> <opErrstr></opErrstr>
>
> Regards,
>   -Prashanth Pai
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Avra Sengupta" <asengupt at redhat.com>
>> To: "Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>, gluster-users at gluster.org,
>> kauffman at cs.uchicago.edu, "Dusmant Kumar Pati" <dpati at redhat.com>, "Shubhendu Tripathi" <shtripat at redhat.com>,
>> msvbhat at redhat.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 3:16:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Non-Uniform opErrstr output in all gluster --xml commands
>>
>> 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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