Re: Add element in set when element already present.

[Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org>]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Yamakaky wrote:

> When I add an element in a set (same with maps) and the set already 
> contains the element, the command fails with an error.

Hi, The current behaviour corresponds to the mathematical definition of a 
set.  But you could always write a simple wrapper which feeds the elements 
one by one to "nft add element" and ignores the error messages for the 
duplicates.

> Expected: no error and the set contains { 0.0.0.0, 1.1.1.1}.

The simple wrapper would have your expected behaviour. What would be 
helpful is a specific return code from "nft add element", and from ipset 
for the same error.

Roger