Those darned IRC people, always advising people to use undocumented options... Sheesh. On 08/06/2012 07:10 PM, James wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120806/978b183c/attachment.htm>
