This would fix for example:
nmcli e <TAB>
(e interpreted as --escape, would allow autocompletion to work... but
when the command is executed an error is reported)
Moreover, we will now have:
nmcli c <TAB>
autocompletion work correctly, i.e., c is correctly interpreted as
"connection" instead of "--colors"
When NM looks for vpn plugins, it would expect the full service name
otherwise it will not be able to retrieve the correct plugin.
Fixes VPN configurations generated with "nmcli connection add".
Re-enable the check on ambiguos properties but this time manage perfect
matches (i.e., the full property name has been typed) that are prefix
of other properties.
Test case:
nmcli --complete-args connection add type wifi wifi.
Here "wifi" is a property alias that is also prefix of the property
alias "wifi-sec".
When parsing arguments of "connection add" we first read the available
property-value pairs and then check if the --ask option was passed in
order to aid in the fill process of a new connection.
Anyway, if there are no property-value tuples at all, we don't even
check the --ask option, returning with error.
Fix this just checking if any arg is there (argc) before invoking
read_connection_properties().
If we found that setting name prefix is in fact unambiguous and return
the completion string for that setting we were freeing the string upon
the return. That looks like a typo.
Fixes "nmcli --complete-args add type wifi wifi."
^^^^ not ambiguous
It allows us to clean up the nmcli "c add" section considerably.
We list the old-fashioned aliases in a separate section that applies to both
"nmcli c add" and "nmcli c modify".
The section is now nicely cross-linked with nm-settings in HTML
rendering.
This is a huge refactoring in attempt to 1.) reduce the horrible redundancy in
the connection addition path and 2.) reduce confusion between various sources
of property value (command line, properties, interactive mode).
* The conversions from the strings was done all over the place:
settings.c already does for all sensible properties.
The rest is removed.
* The validations are done randomly and redundantly:
server does some validation, and per-property client validations
useful for interactive mode are done in settings.c
The rest is removed.
* The information about defaults and required options was redundantly
scattered in per-type completion functions and interactive mode
questionnaries. This is now driven by the option_info[] table.
In general, we do our best to just map the command line options to
properties and allow mixing them. For the rest there's the
check_and_set() callbacks (basically to keep compatibility with previous
nmcli versions). This this is now all possible:
$ nmcli c add type ethernet ifname '*'
This always worked
$ nmcli c add type bond-slave save no -- connection.autoconnect no
The "save" and "--" still work
$ nmcli c add connection.type ethernet ifname eth0
Properties can now be used
$ nmcli c add type ethernet ip4 1.2.3.4 mac 80:86:66:77:88:99 con-name whatever
There's no implementation mandated order of the properties (the type
still must be known to determine which properties make sense)
$ nmcli --ask c add type ethernet ip4 1.2.3.4 mac 80:86:66:77:88:99 con-name whatever
The interactive mode asks only for properties that weren't specified
on command line
Complete the property as we parse the list of properties. This makes it
possible to actually complete an unfinished property. E.g:
$ nmcli --complete c modify enp0s25 +ipv6.addr
+ipv6.addresses +ipv6.addr-gen-mode
Make property autocompletion take a prefix and modifier flags.
This will make it easier to complete an unfinished property name
(possibly accompanied by a modifier) without shell trickery.
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
* no need to check HELP_ONLY_AS_FIRST var as when --help option is passed
_nmcli_compl_OPTIONS will return 0, falling in the general case that
will trigger end of autocompletion
* clanup local var declaration in _nmcli func:
- remove dupliated OPTIONS_MANDATORY declaration
- init HELP_ONLY_AS_FIRST on declaration
- order vars for common prefix
At various places, nmcli requires to specify a VPN type by name, for example
$ nmcli connection add type vpn ifname '*' vpn-type $VPN_TYPE
This $VPN_TYPE used to be a hard-coded list of known VPN plugin names.
But actually, it should be a VPN service-type. A service-type used to be
the D-Bus name of the VPN plugin. Now, with multiple VPN support that
is no longer the case, but it still has the form of a D-Bus bus name.
Alternativley, it could be an alias, which is just a way for plugins
to support multiple service-types.
Fix that, to support fully qualified service-types in the form
of D-Bus bus names. Also, support lookup by name, in which case
the present plugin-info instances are searched.
Finally, support a list of hard-code short-names.
All the logic how to translate a short-name to a fully qualified
service-type is now inside libnm, so that various user agree on
those names and don't have to hard-code them each.
Add new Reload D-Bus command to reload NetworkManager configuration.
For now, this is like sending SIGHUP to the process. There are several
advantages here:
- it is guarded via PolicyKit authentication while signals
can only be sent by root.
- the user can wait for the reload to be complete instead of sending
an asynchronous signal. For now, we operation completes after
nm_config_reload() returns, but later we could delay the response
further until specific parts are fully reloaded.
- SIGHUP reloads everything including re-reading configuration from
disk while SIGUSR1 reloads just certain parts such as writing out DNS
configuration anew.
Now, the Reload command has a flags argument which is more granular
in selecting parts which are to be reloaded. For example, via
signals the user can:
1) send SIGUSR1: this writes out the DNS configuration to
resolv.conf and possibly reloads other parts without
re-reading configuration and without restarting the DNS plugin.
2) send SIGHUP: this reloads configuration from disk,
writes out resolv.conf and restarts the DNS plugin.
There is no way, to only restart the DNS plugin without also reloading
everything else.
Add a new "Config" property to the D-Bus interface for team devices
and show its value through "nmcli device show". The property contains
the full JSON configuration from teamd for the device.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310435
As explained in the function comment, a NULL value for @val is
acceptable. Otherwise:
$ nmcli connection edit
(process:2276): nmcli-CRITICAL **: check_valid_name: assertion 'val' failed
Fixes: fb8fe1d8cb
Instead of using (only) a hard-coded list of VPN types,
prefer lookup the VPN settings from the .name files.
Still, fallback to a hard-coded list if the plugin cannot
be found, because for connection-add we currently don't
actually need the plugin installed.
Just like `nmcli device connect` only allows one argument, don't allow
multiple device arguments for reapply.
Allowing multiple device names makes it more complicated to add
additional options to the command. For example, it would be useful
to have a
nmcli device reapply eth0 connection id other-connection
but when allowing multiple device names, it gets more complicated in
documentation, command line parsing and bash completion.
Note that the user can achieve a very similar outcome by using the
shell:
for DEV in eth0 eth1 eth2; do
nmcli device reapply $DEV &
done
wait
argubaly, this doesn't report the exit status properly. To properly
handle that would require more effort. Also, it is somewhat less
efficient, but well.
This is an API change, however it is very new API that probably nobody
is using much. Also, the documentation (man nmcli) didn't mention the
possibility to pass multiple device names.
