From: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
To: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Cc: pmg-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api 3/3] pmgdb: add active parameter to dump
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:53:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240227135327.1bdac87c@rosa.proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6281853-0990-4bc7-af39-625cb518c17f@proxmox.com>
Thanks for the suggestion - comment in-line:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:11:28 +0100
Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com> wrote:
>..snip..
>
> If I call this with active set to disabled, i.e. as `pmgdb dump --active 0`, then
> I still get the active rules, which feels rather a bit wrong.
>
> IMO this could be interpreted as ternary:
>
> 1. undef (not passed) -> both
> 2. true (--active[=1]) -> active only
> 3. false (--active=0) -> incative only
this does break how booleans behave across most of our CLI tools (afaict).
can be fine, especially with this particular call, which is mostly for
debugging.
Alternatively - why not make this a regular enum (--rules
<all|active|inactive>, defaulting to all)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-27 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-22 21:06 [pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api 0/3] small improvments to pmgdb dump output Stoiko Ivanov
2024-02-22 21:06 ` [pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api 1/3] pmgdb: highlight active rules Stoiko Ivanov
2024-02-22 21:06 ` [pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api 2/3] pmgdb: drop "found" prefixes for each rule and group Stoiko Ivanov
2024-02-22 21:06 ` [pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api 3/3] pmgdb: add active parameter to dump Stoiko Ivanov
2024-02-26 19:11 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2024-02-27 12:53 ` Stoiko Ivanov [this message]
2024-02-27 13:21 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2024-02-23 10:40 ` [pmg-devel] [PATCH pmg-api 0/3] small improvments to pmgdb dump output Friedrich Weber
2024-02-23 11:19 ` Stoiko Ivanov
2024-02-23 12:53 ` Alexander Zeidler
2024-02-23 16:46 ` [pmg-devel] applied-series: " Thomas Lamprecht
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