Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH firewall 4/4] config: combine group/ipset and their comments

[Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Leo Nunner wrote:
> This patch restructures the parsed config structure a bit to be more
> consistent across objects.
> 
> group_comments and ipset_comments were removed from the config structure
> and are now stored directly within the group/ipset objects themselves.
> They now follow the same structure as aliases, with
> 
> <name> => {
>     comment => <...>,
>     [entries|rules] => { <...> },
> }
> 
> We don't need to store separate instances of the original + the
> lower-case name for aliases anymore, so the structure was changed to
> 
> <name> => {
>     comment => <...>,
>     cidr => <...>,
>     ipversion => <...>,
> }
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leo Nunner <l.nunner@proxmox.com>
> ---
> RFC: This one is optional, it's just that while experimenting with 
> the capitalization issue I also looked into using a "name" property 
> for everything (like for aliases), and while I was at it, I also transfered 
> the comments into the main object… I feel like this structure is nicer, but 
> we don't _need_ it. My main worry is that there might still be some calls to
> $conf->{ipset}->{foo} instead of $conf->{ipset}->{foo}->{entries}, but I
> couldn't find any aside from the ones modified in this patch ^^

But in the end you dropped the `name` property of aliases instead.
Could you clarify your conclusion a bit?
Because now we have hashes with original names and need to `grep` their
keys instead of doing lookups because we don't know their
capitalization, and need to remember doing so everywhere.
To me this seems like a step backwards, given that the firewall is
already quite CPU-hungry at times?
It seems to me that all-lowercase hashes with original names inside
would be much eaiser? Sure, we'd have to "undo" this when saving or
returning stuff via the API for backward compatibility.