Re: [PATCH 2/3] mesh: meshctl: Add commands

[Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>]

Hi Luiz,

On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 13:49 -0200, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Luiz,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 13:12 -0200, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> > > Hi Steve,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:58 PM,  <sbrown@cortland.com> wrote:
> > > > From: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Get/Set Proxy
> > > > Get/Set Ident
> > > > Get/Set Relay
> > > > Set Heartbeat
> > > > Get Publication
> > > > Get/Set Subscription
> > > 
> > > Ive split these into individual patches for command and then add
> > > in
> > > the description what the expected output, etc. Btw I think it
> > > would
> > > be
> > > better to switch from get-set style to cmd [value], so if there
> > > is no
> > > arguments then it just read the value, that way reduce the amount
> > > of
> > > commands and also make the autocomplete a lot more useful since
> > > the
> > > commands shall start with something other than set/get.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, I'll make the changes.
> > 
> > This would then affect all the meshctl commands.
> > 
> > I'll have to rearrange the parameter sequence in some of the
> > commands
> > so I can distinguish between a get and a set.
> > 
> > So, where the publish commands currently are
> > set-pub <ele-addr> <pub-addr> <app-idx> .... and
> > get-pub <ele-addr> <model>
> > 
> > They would become
> > pub <ele-addr> <model> <pub-addr> .... for set and
> > pub <ele-addr> <model>                 for get
> > 
> > Do I understand this correctly?
> 
> Yep, but note that due to shell parsing the .arg string you may need
> to add some parameters to set as optional otherwise the command for
> get will never succeed since it will require all mandatory arguments
> to be given as in the set version. If that becomes impractical and
> cause a lot more code to detect what mode the command shall operate
> then perhaps leave as it is and just revert to pub-set/pub-get to
> make
> autocomplete a little more useful.
> 
> > I left the subscription node and database patch separate. I'm on
> > less
> > solid ground here. I basically cribbed the code for bind.
> > 
> > I added the UUID to the database as later I'd like to try to re-
> > provision a known unprovisioned node from the database.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 

I'm not sure I understand the problem.

Some of the get commands require parameters. The same parameters are
also required in the set commands, only more. Currently, they aren't in
the same order. I was going to rearrange the parameters so the set and
get commands have the same parameter sequence. The set command would
just have more. That way I can distinguish between them by the number
of parameters.

Steve