Hook the signal handlers right before the main loop. Prior to that
the default handlers are good enough and our one crashes (due to
loop being instantialized).
Also, set the return value properly to indicate a termination by a
signal.
Next we will use siphash24() instead of the glib version g_direct_hash() or
g_str_hash(). Hence, the "nm-utils/nm-hash-utils.h" header becomes very
fundamental and will be needed basically everywhere.
Instead of requiring the users to include them, let it be included via
"nm-default.h" header.
Replace the usage of g_str_hash() with our own nm_str_hash().
GLib's g_str_hash() uses djb2 hashing function, just like we
do at the moment. The only difference is, that we use a diffrent
seed value.
Note, that we initialize the hash seed with random data (by calling
getrandom() or reading /dev/urandom). That is a change compared to
before.
This change of the hashing function and accessing the random pool
might be undesired for libnm/libnm-core. Hence, the change is not
done there as it possibly changes behavior for public API. Maybe
we should do that later though.
At this point, there isn't much of a change. This patch becomes
interesting, if we decide to use a different hashing algorithm.
This makes it a lot more convenient to deal with long outputs (such as
"nmcli c show id ...").
The implementation is essentially jacked from systemd. The bugs are
mine.
That allows for the property list to contain derived
property types. Also, the list can be directly passed
off as a "const NMMetaAbstractInfo *const*" list.
The show-secrets flag can be toggled in edit mode
nmcli> nmcli show-secrets yes
There is no point in tracking two separate flags for it. Inside
edit mode, when the user toggles the show-secrets flag, it should
overwrite the command line option.
These two flags can be merged.
The show-secret property is basically a part of the current
configuration, relevant during printing. It will be passed
on to nmc_print(), and hence must be part of NmcConfig.
When generating output data, nmcli iterates over a list of
property-descriptors (nmc_fields_ip4_config), creates an intermediate
array (output_data) and finally prints it.
However, previously both the meta data (nmc_fields_ip4_config) and
the intermediate format use the same type NmcOutputField. This means,
certain fields are relevant to describe a property, and other fields
are output/formatting fields.
Split this up. Now, the meta data is tracked in form of an NMMetaAbstractInfo
lists. This separates the information about properties from intermediate steps
during creation of the output.
Note that currently functions like print_ip4_config() still have all the
knowledge about how to generate the output. That is wrong, instead, the
meta data (NMMetaAbstractInfo) should describe how to create the output
and then all those functions could be replaced. This means, later we want
to add more knowledge to the NMMetaAbstractInfo, so it is important to
keep them separate from NmcOutputField.
Options dependant on specific commands (e.g., nmcli connection show
--active) are now allowed to be processed by the next_arg() function.
This would allow autocompletion to expand options belonging to specific
command first, and then global ones.
Note that global options ("--ask" and "--show-secrets") will be auto-completed
everywhere but only if at least a '-' is passed. Command specific ones
(--temporary, --active, --order) will be auto-completed only after the command
they belongs to but without requiring the user to pass a heading '-'.
Example:
'nmcli connection show -a'
will expand '-a' into '--active', but
'nmcli connection add -a`
will expand '-a' into '--ask' (as it is a global option)
This commit fixes also autocompletion for:
nmcli connection modify --temporary
We should not violate the global data to track the output data
while it is constructed and printed.
Most of the time, we actually clear the output data anyway --
either before constructing it, or after printing it.
In some cases we didn't, but I think that is a bug. It's really
hard to keep track of this.
The output data should belong to a certain scope and get destroyed
afterwards. Passing it around is very confusing. Don't do that.
The NmCli structure is passed around everywhere and contains all
the state of the program. It is very hard to follow which parts
are used where.
Split out more configuration options to a NmcConfig field. This field
is mostly immutable, and modified at particular places that now can be
easily found.
nmc contains all options and collects output data. It is very hard to
understand what it does. Start splitting it up, and pass arguments along
-- as needed.
These functions are only used by nm-meta-setting-desc.c. Make them internal.
Unfortunately, they are part of "common.h" which cannot be used without
the rest of nmcli. Still todo.
They will be moved out of nmcli as they are generally useful.
Even if they happen to be used only inside nmcli, there should
be a better separation between logic (nmcli) and setting decriptions.
Add an improved way of tracking meta data about settings.
E.g. it is wrong to generate for each property a nmc_property_*_get_*()
function. Instead, there should be a meta data about the property
itself, and a mechanism to retrieve the property.
For now, only do this for NMSettingConnection and keep all the existing
infrastructure in place. Later on all settings shall be moved.
Especially to accomodate NmcOutputField mangles the concept of
setting-meta data, formatting options, and collecting output results.
It's a total hack, that will be need fixing later.
Shift argc and argc manually between argument ant its value and use
next_arg() between arguments everywhere. Whill be useful to parse global
arguments.