On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 07:33 +0530, Kaushal M wrote: > Hi James, > This is the first time I've heard of someone in the community using > the '--xml' flag. Cool :) I'll be posting my updated code that uses this in my https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster shortly. The --xml flag was suggested by someone in irc, as a stable alternative to parsing the normal command line output (messy). > This flag has not been tested extensively, so there are bound to be > some errors, inconsistencies and incompleteness. We are trying to fix > it and stabilize it as much as possible. So if you do find any bugs > (which you will) please report them. Will do :) It seems to be working at the moment 3.3 James > > Cheers, > Kaushal > > On 7 Aug 2012 01:58, "James" <purpleidea at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm currently using the --xml flag when running gluster via > automatic > scripts such as via puppet exec. Please keep this stable :) > > Thank you! > James > > > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 12:31 +0530, Amar Tumballi wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > We are in the process of improving our log messages, and > message outputs > > through CLI. As a first step, we want to make sure our CLI > outputs are > > both meaningful and script friendly (for people who want to > use the CLI > > output in their scripts). > > > > We are taking few baby steps in this regard in upstream > (master branch). > > I recently sent a patch http://review.gluster.com/3753 which > tries to > > separate out most of the error messages by outputting it to > stderr > > instead of stdout. > > > > In the meantime, I tried to keep it script friendly too. > With that patch > > going in, the problem is, if any of you have written scripts > which greps > > for specific pattern in the CLI output, will be broken when > the next > > major release happens. > > > > So, I want your feed back on getting it right by involving > you all to > > make the messages more friendlier to both script writers, > and also to > > admins who would understand the messages properly. (ie, > meaning of the > > messages should be unambiguous). > > > > To try to see the difference in CLI outputs, you need to > checkout git > > repo, and build locally, as there are no releases available > at the moment. > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Amar > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120806/2cd23644/attachment.pgp>
