On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 04:20:28PM +0530, Avra Sengupta wrote: > In that case will stick with <opErrstr/> for all the null elements. That would be my preference too. A "(null)" error string is not useful, and xml allows empty elements easily. Thanks, Niels > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>To: "Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx>, gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx, > >>kauffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dusmant Kumar Pati" <dpati@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Shubhendu Tripathi" <shtripat@xxxxxxxxxx>, > >>msvbhat@xxxxxxxxxx > >>Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 3:16:10 PM > >>Subject: Re: 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 > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>Gluster-devel mailing list > >>>>Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > >>>>http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Gluster-devel mailing list > >>Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > >>http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel