These functions are only used by nm-meta-setting-desc.c. Make them internal.
Unfortunately, they are part of "common.h" which cannot be used without
the rest of nmcli. Still todo.
This part contains static functions and variables to describe
settings. It is distinct from the mechanism to use them, or
access them.
Split it out.
It still uses clients/cli/common.h and clients/cli/utils.h
which shall be fixed next.
They will be moved out of nmcli as they are generally useful.
Even if they happen to be used only inside nmcli, there should
be a better separation between logic (nmcli) and setting decriptions.
Mostly these strings are static. In same cases they are generated
however. Instead of caching them in a static variable, return them
to the caller.
And belatedly fix invoking describe_fcn().
settings.c basically consists of property-type structures and *a lot* of
accessors. All these accessors share the same argument list.
It is very repetitive to specify it over and over again. Also, there
are so many arguments that one is compelled to wrap the lines. All
in all it results in a lot of noise that takes the eye from the important
code.
Also, the argument list is expected to change, so we possibly only
have to change one place.
We shall not only have a PropertyInfo. Most properties share common
behavior, that is, they have a type. Move the function pointers to
a NmcPropertyType structure, so that it can be reused for multiple
properties.
This promotes the idea that properties have a (limited) set of types
with some type specific behaviors. Contrary, to having each property
re-implement fully it's type. E.g. instead of having various property
re-define their full behavior as an "bool", have one property type
"bool" which can be attached to a property.
Add an improved way of tracking meta data about settings.
E.g. it is wrong to generate for each property a nmc_property_*_get_*()
function. Instead, there should be a meta data about the property
itself, and a mechanism to retrieve the property.
For now, only do this for NMSettingConnection and keep all the existing
infrastructure in place. Later on all settings shall be moved.
Especially to accomodate NmcOutputField mangles the concept of
setting-meta data, formatting options, and collecting output results.
It's a total hack, that will be need fixing later.
This will be solved differently by th/setting-user-data-bgo776276
branch. Revert the change for now, the same functionality will be
restored later.
This reverts commit 623d888801.
Shift argc and argc manually between argument ant its value and use
next_arg() between arguments everywhere. Whill be useful to parse global
arguments.
moved from: char *colorize_string (..., gboolean &dealloc)
to: const char *colorize_string (..., char **out_to_free)
No more needed to cast (char *) on a (const char *).
Fixed also get_value_to_print() which relies on colorize_string()
When a full section is specified as the field parameter in terse tabular
mode, the section name should be printed followed by all the field values
belonging to that section separated by ':'. The NAME of section CONNECTIONS
was missing.
sample command:
$ nmcli -m tab -t -f CONNECTIONS device show ens3
previous output was:
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/{1}:5059XXX-XXXX.. | ens3-dhcp
now:
CONNECTIONS:/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/{1}:5059XXX-XXXX.. | ens3-dhcp
When only the main header should be printed and output mode
is 'pretty' skip the construction of the string containing
field values as it will not be used.
