From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dsahern@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] tc: pedit: Support JSON dumping
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:23:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cdb5f51b-a8aa-7deb-1085-4fab7e01d64f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imhq4j6b.fsf@mellanox.com>
On 4/23/20 3:59 AM, Petr Machata wrote:
>
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:06:15 +0300
>> Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> + print_string(PRINT_FP, NULL, ": %s",
>>> + cmd ? "add" : "val");
>>> + print_string(PRINT_JSON, "cmd", NULL,
>>> + cmd ? "add" : "set");
>>
>> Having different outputs for JSON and file here. Is that necessary?
>> JSON output is new, and could just mirror existing usage.
>
> This code outputs this bit:
>
> {
> "htype": "udp",
> "offset": 0,
> "cmd": "set", <----
> "val": "3039",
> "mask": "ffff0000"
> },
>
> There are currently two commands, set and add. The words used to
> configure these actions are set and add as well. The way these commands
> are dumped should be the same, too. The only reason why "set" is
> reported as "val" in file is that set used to be the implied action.
>
> JSON doesn't have to be backward compatible, so it should present the
> expected words.
>
Stephen: do you agree?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-26 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-22 17:06 [PATCH iproute2-next] tc: pedit: Support JSON dumping Petr Machata
2020-04-22 20:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-23 9:59 ` Petr Machata
2020-04-26 18:23 ` David Ahern [this message]
2020-04-27 23:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-28 9:32 ` Petr Machata
2020-04-28 11:47 ` Petr Machata
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