It is a waste of resources instantiating a NMClient, filling the
object cache and then throwing everything away without using it. This
can take seconds on slow systems with many objects. Since the
ReloadConnections doesn't need anything from the cache, just execute
the D-Bus method call directly.
Scripts should refer to connections by UUID. That means, whenever a
UUID matches, that is really what the user wants. The specifier "uuid"
must have precedence over "id" (and all others). That means, we must
search all connections.
For example:
$ UUIDS=($(nmcli -g TYPE,UUID connection show | sed -n 's/802-11-wireless://p'))
$ nmcli -f connection.id,connection.uuid connection show "${UUIDS[@]}"
in this case we must preferrably match by UUID, regardless of whether
a "connection.id" exists.
Note that if you have:
$ nmcli connection show | grep fdf7b2d2-2858-3938-9b14-7f1b514a9a00
b fdf7b2d2-2858-3938-9b14-7f1b514a9a00 ethernet --
fdf7b2d2-2858-3938-9b14-7f1b514a9a00 ab9f3891-3420-335e-89da-f14c1b94c540 ethernet --
then certain commands will still select all matching connections:
$ nmcli -f connection.id,connection.uuid --mode multiline connection show fdf7b2d2-2858-3938-9b14-7f1b514a9a00
connection.id: fdf7b2d2-2858-3938-9b14-7f1b514a9a00
connection.uuid: ab9f3891-3420-335e-89da-f14c1b94c540
connection.id: b
connection.uuid: fdf7b2d2-2858-3938-9b14-7f1b514a9a00
This only makes a difference for commands that must pick only one profile:
$ nmcli connection modify fdf7b2d2-2858-3938-9b14-7f1b514a9a00 con-name new-name
Since commit 62b939de4e ('cli: add nmc_complete_strv() which takes a
string array for completion that may contain NULL'), the sentinel is
no longer needed.
When asking for the preshared-key for WireGuard peers, the secret request
will be very verbose with redundant information. Allow suppressing the entry
id from the prompt.
Most of the times we actually need a NMSecretAgentSimple typed pointer.
This way, need need to cast less.
But even if we would need to cast more, it's better to have pointers
point to the actual type, not merely to avoid shortcomings of C.
In most cases, we don't want the translated string (only marked
for translation, and then programatically the caller deciedes
whether to translate or not).
The few places that always call gettext() can do it explicitly.
Now, that our functions are all "no_l10n" by default, rename them.
Otherwise readline decides to initialize terminal handling at the first
readline call, and if that happens at the point it sees our
non-echoing rl_redisplay.
At that point, unless already intialized, readline wrongly convinces itself we
do our own handling of terminal peculiarities (such as cursor movement, or
erases). We do not -- we merely wrap the stock rl_redisplay(), temporarily
hiding the actual characters.
The rl_initialize() in nmc_readline_echo()s fixes broken line editing in
password prompts that weren't preceded a previous non-password prompt.
The other one is there for consistency only. (I guess we should be
initializing readline before use anyway; although it seems to initialize
itself anyway if we fail to do so...)
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/pull/241
Globals are bad. Don't let nmc_readline_helper() access
nm_cli.
Instead, pass nmc_config along. nmc_config albeit being
a complex struct, is much more begning:
- the configuration nmc_config is initialized early on
and afterwards immutable.
- it only contains simple fields, which affect the behavior.
- it's not a global. While passing around the complex configuration
struct, it is clear that all callpaths don't access additional
global information.
The function nmc_print() receives a list of "targets". These are essentially
the rows that should be printed (while the "fields" list represents the columns).
When filling the cells with values, it calles repeatedly get_fcn() on the
column descriptors (fields), by passing each row (target).
The caller must be well aware that the fields and targets are
compatible. For example, in some cases the targets are NMDevice
instances and the target type must correspond to what get_fcn()
expects.
Add another user-data pointer that is passed on along with the
targets. That is useful, if we have a list of targets/rows, but
pass in additional data that applies to all rows alike.
It is still unused.
The property getter for certain properties tries to return
a strv array.
In this case, the result should be identical, whether an
empty strv array or NULL is returned.
Let _ip_config_get_routes() return %NULL if there are no routes.
This should have no practical difference, but it actually exposes
a bug in "cli/common/utils.c", which was previously hidden by
not commonly returning %NULL. This bug will be fixed in the
next commit.
The reasons are:
- I want to locate all implmenetations of the get_fcn() handler. By
consistently using this macro, you can just grep for the macro and
find them all.
- all implementations should follow the same style. This macro
enforces the same names for arguments and avoids copy&paste.
- if we are going to add or change an argument, it becomes easier.
That's because we can easily identify all implementation and can
change arguments in one place.
Functions like nmc_find_connection() and nmc_find_active_connection()
can easily find multiple matching results. For example, the
"connection.id" in NetworkManager is not enforced to be unique,
so if the user adds multiple connections with the same name,
they should be all selected.
The previous API had a @pos argument, that allowed to iterate over
the results. Change that, to return all matches in a GPtrArray.
Also, extend connection-show and other places, to anticipate that
a connection might be active multiple times in any moment.
This basically replaces the (NMMetaTermColor, NMMetaTermFormat) combo
with NMMetaColor that describes the colored element semantically as
opposed to storing the raw attributes.
A (currently static) paletted is used to translate the semantic color
code to the actual ANSI controle sequence. This matches what
terminal-colors.d(5) schemes use, making it convenient to implement
customizable palettes.
'help' is completed without considering other alternatives:
# nmcli connection modify h<TAB>
help
After the patch:
# nmcli connection modify h<TAB>
help
home-wifi
Fixes: 29bb6ae4fe
Makes sense in order for the user to know that they're actually typing
the password (edited just to illustrate the point, the actual output was
shamefully messy and perhaps needs fixing too):
$ nmcli c up Wrathmosphere
Passwords or encryption keys are required to access the wireless network 'Wrathmosphere'.
Password (802-1x.password): *********
History is probably even not useful at all outside the interactive edit
mode, but that is another story. This just avoids awkward surprises,
such as:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791200
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.
We want to support large number of routes. Reduce the number
of copies, by adding internal accessor functions.
Also, work around a complaint from coverity:
46. NetworkManager-1.9.2/libnm-core/nm-utils.c:1987:
dereference: Dereferencing a null pointer "names".
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.
In a later commit we'll add a new generic client function used by
nmcli and nmtui. nm-client-utils.c seems the right place for it, so
move the file to the base library that is used by both clients.
While at it, also put in that file some functions that will be needed
by nmtui.
The INT signal can arrive after a new line has been processed in
nmc_readline_helper(). In such case, the handler gets uninstalled by
readline_cb() and nmc_seen_sigint() returns TRUE. However it's an
error to call rl_callback_read_char() without handler, don't do it.
Fixes the following:
"readline: readline_callback_read_char() called with no handler!"
#0 __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
#1 __GI_abort () at abort.c:90
#2 rl_callback_read_char () at ../callback.c:116
#3 nmc_readline_helper (prompt=prompt@entry=0x2aa0d229080 "nmcli> ") at clients/cli/common.c:1387
#4 nmc_readline (prompt_fmt=prompt_fmt@entry=0x2aa0036ac9e "%s") at clients/cli/common.c:1448
#5 do_connection_edit (connection=0x2aa0d215440, nmc=0x2aa00391298 <nm_cli>) at clients/cli/connections.c:7072
Fixes: 995229181chttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458311
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.
