Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v4 1/1] police: Add support for json output

[Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 09:44:08AM +0300, Roi Dayan wrote:
> Change to use the print wrappers instead of fprintf().
> 
> This is example output of the options part before this commit:
> 
>         "options": {
>             "handle": 1,
>             "in_hw": true,
>             "actions": [ {
>                     "order": 1 police 0x2 ,
>                     "control_action": {
>                         "type": "drop"
>                     },
>                     "control_action": {
>                         "type": "continue"
>                     }overhead 0b linklayer unspec
>         ref 1 bind 1
> ,
>                     "used_hw_stats": [ "delayed" ]
>                 } ]
>         }
> 
> This is the output of the same dump with this commit:
> 
>         "options": {
>             "handle": 1,
>             "in_hw": true,
>             "actions": [ {
>                     "order": 1,
>                     "kind": "police",
>                     "index": 2,
>                     "control_action": {
>                         "type": "drop"
>                     },
>                     "control_action": {
>                         "type": "continue"
>                     },
>                     "overhead": 0,
>                     "linklayer": "unspec",
>                     "ref": 1,
>                     "bind": 1,
>                     "used_hw_stats": [ "delayed" ]
>                 } ]
>         }
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com>
> ---

[...]
> 
> @@ -300,13 +301,13 @@ static int print_police(struct action_util *a, FILE *f, struct rtattr *arg)
>  	    RTA_PAYLOAD(tb[TCA_POLICE_RATE64]) >= sizeof(rate64))
>  		rate64 = rta_getattr_u64(tb[TCA_POLICE_RATE64]);
>  
> -	fprintf(f, " police 0x%x ", p->index);
> +	print_uint(PRINT_ANY, "index", "\t index %u ", p->index);

Hi everyone,

This update break all policy checking in kernel tc selftest actions/police.json.
As the new output would like 

total acts 1

        action order 0: police   index 1 rate 1Kbit burst 10Kb mtu 2Kb action reclassify overhead 0 ref 1 bind 0


And the current test checks like

	"matchPattern": "action order [0-9]*:  police 0x1 rate 1Kbit burst 10Kb"

I plan to update the kselftest to mach the new output. But I have a question.
Why need we add a "\t" before index output? Is it needed or could be removed?

Thanks
Hangbin