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.
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.
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.
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.
libnm-core: pac-script property in NMSettingProxy now represents the
script itself not the location. It ensures that the connection is
self contained.
nmcli: Supports loading of PAC Script via file path or written explicitly.
The error returned to users when a load_connection(s)/set_logging call
fails due to D-Bus policy denial is a bit obscure:
$ nmcli general logging level debug
Error: failed to set logging: Rejected send message, 4 matched rules;
type="method_call", sender=":1.233" (uid=1001 pid=27225 comm="nmcli
general logging level debug ")
interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" member="SetLogging" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.207" (uid=0
pid=25793 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon ")
Convert it to a more comprehensible:
$ nmcli general logging level debug
Error: failed to set logging: access denied
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362542
(cherry picked from commit 805925f9ef)
The list of LLDP neighbors is available through the D-Bus interface
and libnm already provides functions to retrieve it; make the list
available through nmcli as well. Sample output:
$ nmcli device lldp
NEIGHBOR[0].DEVICE: eth0
NEIGHBOR[0].CHASSIS-ID: 00:13:21:58:CA:42
NEIGHBOR[0].PORT-ID: 1
NEIGHBOR[0].PORT-DESCRIPTION: 1
NEIGHBOR[0].SYSTEM-NAME: ProCurve Switch 2600-8-PWR
NEIGHBOR[0].SYSTEM-DESCRIPTION: ProCurve J8762A Switch 2600-8-PWR, revision H.08.89
NEIGHBOR[0].SYSTEM-CAPABILITIES: 20 (mac-bridge,router)
NEIGHBOR[1].DEVICE: eth2
NEIGHBOR[1].CHASSIS-ID: 00:01:30:F8:AD:A2
NEIGHBOR[1].PORT-ID: 1/1
NEIGHBOR[1].PORT-DESCRIPTION: Summit300-48-Port 1001
NEIGHBOR[1].SYSTEM-NAME: Summit300-48
NEIGHBOR[1].SYSTEM-DESCRIPTION: Summit300-48 - Version 7.4e.1 (Build 5)
NEIGHBOR[1].SYSTEM-CAPABILITIES: 20 (mac-bridge,router)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757307
Create NMIPConfig as the parent of NMIP4Config and NMIP6Config, and
remove the two subclasses from the public API; while it's convenient
to still have both internally, they are now identical to the outside
world.
The gateway is a global property of the IPv4/IPv6 configuration, not
an attribute of any particular address. So represent it as such in the
API; remove the gateway from NMIPAddress, and add it to
NMSettingIPConfig.
Behind the scenes, the gateway is still serialized along with the
first address in NMSettingIPConfig:addresses, and is deserialized from
that if the settings dictionary doesn't contain a 'gateway' key.
Adjust nmcli's interactive mode to prompt for IP addresses and gateway
separately. (Patch partly from Jirka Klimeš.)
Merge NMIP4Address and NMIP6Address into NMIPAddress, and NMIP4Route
and NMIP6Route into NMIPRoute. The new types represent IP addresses as
strings, rather than in binary, and so are address-family agnostic.
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.)
GLib/Gtk have mostly settled on the convention that two-letter
acronyms in type names remain all-caps (eg, "IO"), but longer acronyms
become initial-caps-only (eg, "Tcp").
NM was inconsistent, with most long acronyms using initial caps only
(Adsl, Cdma, Dcb, Gsm, Olpc, Vlan), but others using all caps (DHCP,
PPP, PPPOE, VPN). Fix libnm and src/ to use initial-caps only for all
three-or-more-letter-long acronyms (and update nmcli and nmtui for the
libnm changes).
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/.
