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.
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.
Otherwise, changing the structure is difficult because it all depends
on the order (and you don't immdiately see which field is used where).
Also, drop the name_l10n field.
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.
In practice, this should only matter when there are multiple
header files with the same name. That is something we try
to avoid already, by giving headers a distinct name.
When building NetworkManager itself, we clearly want to use
double-quotes for including our own headers.
But we also want to do that in our public headers. For example:
./a.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <nm-1.h>
void main() {
printf ("INCLUDED %s/nm-2.h\n", SYMB);
}
./1/nm-1.h
#include <nm-2.h>
./1/nm-2.h
#define SYMB "1"
./2/nm-2.h
#define SYMB "2"
$ cc -I./2 -I./1 ./a.c
$ ./a.out
INCLUDED 2/nm-2.h
Exceptions to this are
- headers in "shared/nm-utils" that include <NetworkManager.h>. These
headers are copied into projects and hence used like headers owned by
those projects.
- examples/C
Currently the editor runs in a dedicated thread so that the blocking
call to readline() doesn't stop the processing of D-Bus events in the
main loop. The editor thread can access objects concurrently with the
main thread and this can cause races and crashes.
Remove the editor thread and use the non-blocking readline API.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732097https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368353
nmcli bash autocompletion leveraged on "nmcli connection edit", "print"
to retrieve the specific properties of a connection. Anyway, the
interactive editor is smart and just prints the used components, so in a
connection where 802.1x is not enabled we had no autocompletion.
Solved adding an "hidden" command "nmcli --complete connection modify"
as suggested in bgo #724860 in order to retrieve ALL the available
properties for use in autocompletion.
Here patch from L.Rintel has been merged to make che --complete option
global to nmcli (first version was local to "connection modify").
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724860https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301226
When performing NM package upgrade the new version of nmcli will be immediately
available while NM daemon will not, as it would not restart in order to avoid
to disrupt connectivity. This could create issues with tools leveraging
on nmcli output (till reboot). As apart from this case it is very unlikely
that a user can have this nmcli / NM daemon version mismatch situation,
the check could cause more harm than benefit in real user case
scenarios.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291785
- All internal source files (except "examples", which are not internal)
should include "config.h" first. As also all internal source
files should include "nm-default.h", let "config.h" be included
by "nm-default.h" and include "nm-default.h" as first in every
source file.
We already wanted to include "nm-default.h" before other headers
because it might contains some fixes (like "nm-glib.h" compatibility)
that is required first.
- After including "nm-default.h", we optinally allow for including the
corresponding header file for the source file at hand. The idea
is to ensure that each header file is self contained.
- Don't include "config.h" or "nm-default.h" in any header file
(except "nm-sd-adapt.h"). Public headers anyway must not include
these headers, and internal headers are never included after
"nm-default.h", as of the first previous point.
- Include all internal headers with quotes instead of angle brackets.
In practice it doesn't matter, because in our public headers we must
include other headers with angle brackets. As we use our public
headers also to compile our interal source files, effectively the
result must be the same. Still do it for consistency.
- Except for <config.h> itself. Include it with angle brackets as suggested by
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Configuration-Headers
- it controls echoing passwords input on terminal
- it replaces --show-secrets in 'nmcli connection show', which is deprecated now
- it replaces --show-password in 'nmcli device wifi hotspot', which is deprecated now
nmcli -c auto -> colors will only be used when stdout is a terminal
nmcli -c yes -> colors will be enabled unconditionally
nmcli -c no -> colors will be disabled unconditionally
It is useful for running nmcli without --ask option, i.e. non-interactively.
Example contents of the file:
wifi.psk: s e c r e t 12345
802-1x.password:kili manjaro
802-1x.pin:987654321
libnm mostly used GPtrArrays in its APIs, except that arrays of
connections were usually GSLists. Fix this and make them GPtrArrays
too (and rename nm_client_list_connections() to
nm_client_get_connections() to match everything else).
Add NetworkManager.h, which includes all of the other NM header, and
require all external users of libnm to use that rather than the
individual headers.
(An exception is made for nm-dbus-interface.h,
nm-vpn-dbus-interface.h, and nm-version.h, which can be included
separately.)
Since the API has not changed at this point, this is mostly just a
matter of updating Makefiles, and changing references to the library
name in comments.
NetworkManager cannot link to libnm due to the duplicated type/symbol
names. So it links to libnm-core.la directly, which means that
NetworkManager gets a separate copy of that code from libnm.so.
Everything else links to libnm.
Create a new clients/ subdirectory at the top level, and move cli/ and
tui/ into it, as well as nm-online.c (which was previously in test/,
which made no sense).
cli/ was split into two subdirectories, src/ and completion/. While
this does simplify things (given that the completion file and the
binary both need to be named "nmcli"), it bloats the source tree, and
we can work around it by just renaming the completion file at install
time. Then we can combine the two directories into one and just have
it all under clients/cli/.
