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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode•com>,
	git <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] gitweb: Return plain booleans in validation methods
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:11:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeh5slc53.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANQwDweGgQpnqDqaekBWt-rczjHkJEmFyXW9qDh2En2r=ZXbMw@mail.gmail.com> ("Jakub Narębski"'s message of "Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:07:08 +0100")

Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail•com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode•com> wrote:
>
>> Users of validate_* passing "0" might get failures on correct name
>> because of coercion of "0" to false in code like:
>> die_error(500, "invalid ref") unless (check_ref_format ("0"));
>
> I would say that the problem was that validate_sth() subroutines returned
> value of parameter if it was valid, which could be a problem if said value is
> false-ish (e.g. validate_refname("0"), or validate_pathname("0")).
>
> Returning undef on invalid data newer was a problem, using 'return $input;'
> on valid input was, especially that validate_sth() functions were ever used
> in a conditional:
>
>   if (!validate_sth($param)) {
>       die_error(...)
>   }

Correct, and I think that is exactly what the above three lines in
the proposed log message says.

> While at it validate_sth() is not a best name for boolean predicate:
> is_valid_sth() would be better, I think.

Yeah, I tend to agree.  As we are doing a whole-sale API clean-up in
this patch, we might as well do that at the same time.

>> Signed-off-by: Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@endocode•com>
>> ---
>>  gitweb/gitweb.perl | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> index 67415b9..3434602 100755
>> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
>> @@ -1419,63 +1419,68 @@ sub href {
>>  ## validation, quoting/unquoting and escaping
>>
>>  sub validate_action {
>> -       my $input = shift || return undef;
>> -       return undef unless exists $actions{$input};
>> -       return $input;
>> +       my $input = shift;
>> +
>> +       return 0 unless defined $input;
>> +       return 0 unless exists $actions{$input};
>> +       return 1;
>>  }
>
> The only change that needs to be doe is replacing
>
>            return $input;
>
> with
>
>            return 1;

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-04 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-04 13:42 [PATCH 0/5] Show extra branch refs in gitweb v6 Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 13:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] gitweb: Add a comment explaining the meaning of $/ Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 15:11   ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-04 15:46     ` Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 16:19       ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-04 20:28         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-05  9:16           ` Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 17:34       ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-04 17:37         ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-04 13:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] gitweb: Move check-ref-format code into separate function Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 15:56   ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-05  9:19     ` Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 20:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-05  9:18     ` Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 13:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] gitweb: Return plain booleans in validation methods Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 16:07   ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-04 18:11     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-12-05  9:23     ` Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-05 18:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-05 19:11         ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-05 20:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-04 13:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] gitweb: Add a feature for adding more branch refs Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 18:06   ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-05 10:00     ` Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-05 11:40       ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-10 16:04       ` Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-10 18:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-10 19:06       ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-10 19:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-04 13:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] gitweb: Denote non-heads, non-remotes branches Krzesimir Nowak
2013-12-04 18:54   ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-04 20:37 ` [PATCH 0/5] Show extra branch refs in gitweb v6 Junio C Hamano

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