[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-common 1/5] PVE::CLIHandler - new helper print_api_result

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Fri Jun 22 16:27:12 CEST 2018


> Some questions/minor cosmetic nits inline:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 08:00:28AM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > Allow to print complex object/array by simply converting them to JSON.
> > 
> > Note: Our API almost always return simply values.
> > Signed-off-by: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com>
> > ---
> >  src/PVE/CLIHandler.pm | 62
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/PVE/CLIHandler.pm b/src/PVE/CLIHandler.pm
> > index b24a0cc..b46d87e 100644
> > --- a/src/PVE/CLIHandler.pm
> > +++ b/src/PVE/CLIHandler.pm
> > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package PVE::CLIHandler;
> >  
> >  use strict;
> >  use warnings;
> > +use JSON;
> >  
> >  use PVE::SafeSyslog;
> >  use PVE::Exception qw(raise raise_param_exc);
> > @@ -428,6 +429,18 @@ my $print_bash_completion = sub {
> >      &$print_result(@option_list);
> >  };
> >  
> > +sub data_to_text {
> > +    my ($data) = @_;
> > +
> > +    return undef if !defined($data);
> > +
> > +    if (my $class = ref($data)) {
> > +	return to_json($data, { utf8 => 1, canonical => 1 });
> > +    } else {
> > +	return "$data";
> > +    }
> could we use to_json($data, { allow_nonref => 1, utf8 => 1, canonical => 1 })
> here instead of the if/else?

That would result in additional "quotes" around simply strings.

> $class in the if is not used afterwards - maybe get rid of it?

yes

> > +}
> > +
> >  # prints a formatted table with a title row.
> >  # $formatopts is an array of hashes, with the following keys:
> >  # 'key' - key of $data element to print
> > @@ -455,7 +468,7 @@ sub print_text_table {
> >  
> >  	my $longest = $titlelen;
> >  	foreach my $entry (@$data) {
> > -	    my $len = length($entry->{$key}) // 0;
> > +	    my $len = length(data_to_text($entry->{$key})) // 0;
> >  	    $longest = $len if $len > $longest;
> >  	}
> >  
> > @@ -473,20 +486,7 @@ sub print_text_table {
> >      printf $formatstring, @titles;
> >  
> >      foreach my $entry (sort { $a->{$keys[0]} cmp $b->{$keys[0]} } @$data) {
> > -        printf $formatstring, map { substr(($entry->{$_} // $defaults{$_}),
> > 0 , $cutoffs{$_}) } @keys;
> > -    }
> > -}
> > -
> > -sub print_entry {
> > -    my $entry = shift;
> > -
> > -    #TODO: handle objects/hashes as well
> > -    foreach my $item (sort keys %$entry) {
> > -	if (ref($entry->{$item}) eq 'ARRAY') {
> > -	    printf "%s: [ %s ]\n", $item, join(", ", @{$entry->{$item}});
> > -	} else {
> > -	    printf "%s: %s\n", $item, $entry->{$item};
> > -	}
> > +        printf $formatstring, map { substr((data_to_text($entry->{$_}) //
> > $defaults{$_}), 0 , $cutoffs{$_}) } @keys;
> >      }
> >  }
> >  
> > @@ -514,6 +514,38 @@ sub print_api_list {
> >      print_text_table($formatopts, $data);
> >  }
> >  
> > +sub print_api_result {
> > +    my ($format, $data, $result_schema) = @_;
> > +
> > +    return if $result_schema->{type} eq 'null';
> > +
> > +    if ($format eq 'json') {
> > +	print to_json($data, {utf8 => 1, allow_nonref => 1, canonical => 1, pretty
> > => 1 });
> > +    } elsif ($format eq 'text') {
> > +	my $type = $result_schema->{type};
> > +	if ($type eq 'object') {
> > +	    foreach my $key (sort keys %$data) {
> > +		print $key . ": " .  data_to_text($data->{$key}) . "\n";
> > +	    }
> > +	} elsif ($type eq 'array') {
> > +	    return if !scalar(@$data);
> > +	    my $item_type = $result_schema->{items}->{type};
> > +	    if ($item_type eq 'object') {
> > +		my $prop_list = [ sort keys %{$result_schema->{items}->{properties}}];
> > +		print_api_list($prop_list, $data, $result_schema);
> > +	    } else {
> > +		foreach my $entry (@$data) {
> > +		    print data_to_text($entry) . "\n";
> > +		}
> > +	    }
> > +	} else {
> > +	    print "$data\n";
> > +	}
> AFAIS - we get an "error" here if the type is "coderef" (e.g.
> bash-completion subs) - do we want special a treatment for that type, or do
> we leave it the caller's responsibility to send sane data?

I think coderefs are inside the schema (not the $data) ?




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