Now that routes can include optional attributes, print the expected
syntax in case of parsing failure.
$ nmcli connection modify dummy ipv4.routes a
Error: failed to modify ipv4.routes: invalid route: Invalid IPv4
address 'a'. The valid syntax is: 'ip[/prefix] [next-hop] [metric]
[attribute=val]... [,ip[/prefix] ...]'.
Before refactoring nmcli recently, field names were marked for translation.
Note that for the property names, marking them had no effect as only
plain strings can be marked with N_().
Note how --fields are also an input argument. The input should be
independent of the locale and not translated. Likewise, when printing
the header names, they should not be translated to match the --fields
option.
$ LANG=de_DE.utf8 nmcli --fields GENERAL.DEVICE device show enp0s25
GENERAL.GERÄT: enp0s25
Drop the translation marks.
Ensure we call G_IS_ENUM_CLASS() or G_IS_FLAGS_CLASS() only on classed
types.
$ nmcli connection modify foobar wifi.powersave 1
Thread 1 "nmcli" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000440a4d in _set_fcn_gobject_enum at
clients/common/nm-meta-setting-desc.c:985
985 || G_IS_ENUM_CLASS (gtype_prop)) {
Fixes: f53218ed7c
That allows for the property list to contain derived
property types. Also, the list can be directly passed
off as a "const NMMetaAbstractInfo *const*" list.
This change (improves) behavior.
Before, we would only complete
if (g_strcmp0 (con_type, nmc_tab_completion.con_type) != 0)
which doesn't really make sense as it depends on the slave-type,
not nmc_tab_completion.con_type.
This changes behavior, in that yes|no prompt and answer is no longer
localized.
For command line arguments, I think it is always wrong for nmcli to
behave differently based on the localization. That is, input properties
on command line should not be translated.
One could make an argument, that in interactive mode that is different
and the user can be prompted in the his language.
But I think for consistency, it is wrong to ask for localized nmcli input.
Don't mutate global state. For now, hack around it by putting
the mutable flags to a separate (global) cache. Obviously, it
still uses global data, but it no longer touches the global
option_info list.
- have the "self" argument first, before the environment arguments.
It's more idiomatic.
- from within cli, always pass nmc_meta_environment and nmc_meta_arg
where needed.
- drop the union in NMMetaAbstractInfo. I was suppost to make casts
nicer, but it doesn't really.
We already have
- data sources (nm_cli, connections or settings)
- meta data information how to access the data sources (NMMetaAbstractInfo,
NmcMetaGenericInfo, NMMetaPropertyInfo)
Add now a generic way to output cli data using nmc_print(). It gets a
list of data-sources (@targets) and a list of available fields (meta
data). It also gets cli configuration (NmcConfig) and field selector
strings (@field_str).
Based on that, it should output the desired data.
This is intended to replaces the previous approach, where functions like
show_nm_status() have full knowledge about how to access the data and
create an intermediate output format (NmcOutputData, NmcOutputField)
that was printed via print_data().
show_nm_status() contained both knowledge about the data itself (how to
print a value) and intimate knoweledge about the output intermediate
format. Also, the intermediate format is hard to understand. For
example, sometimes we put the field prefix in NmcOutputField at index 0
and via the NmcOfFlags we control how to output the data.
Clearly separate the responsibilities.
- The meta data (NmcMetaGenericInfo) is only concerned with converting
a data source to a string (or a color format).
- the field selection (@field_str) only cares about parsing the list
of NMMetaAbstractInfo.
- _print_fill() populates a table with output values and header
entries.
- _print_do() prints the previously prepared table.
The advantage is that if you want to change anything, you only need to
touch a particular part.
This is only a show-case for `nmcli general status`. Parts are still
un-implemented and will follow.
This changes behavior for --terse mode: the values are now no longer
translated:
$ LANG=de_DE.utf8 nmcli -t --mode multiline general
