Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next master] bridge: fdb show: fix fdb entry state output for json context

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:47:42 -0700

On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:35:33 +0200
Julien Fortin <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:54 PM Stephen Hemminger <
> [email-masked]> wrote:  
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:50:55 +0200
> > Julien Fortin <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >  
> > > From: Julien Fortin <[email-masked]>
> > >
> > > bridge json fdb show is printing an incorrect / non-machine readable
> > > value, when using -j (json output) we are expecting machine readable
> > > data that shouldn't require special handling/parsing.
> > >
> > > $ bridge -j fdb show | \
> > > python -c \
> > > 'import  
> > sys,json;print(json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()),indent=4))'  
> > > [
> > >     {
> > >         "master": "br0",
> > >         "mac": "56:23:28:4f:4f:e5",
> > >         "flags": [],
> > >         "ifname": "vx0",
> > >         "state": "state=0x80"  <<<<<<<<< with the patch: "state": "0x80"
> > >     }
> > > ]
> > >
> > > Fixes: c7c1a1ef51aea7c ("bridge: colorize output and use JSON print  
> > library")  
> > > Signed-off-by: Julien Fortin <[email-masked]>
> > > ---
> > >  bridge/fdb.c | 5 ++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/bridge/fdb.c b/bridge/fdb.c
> > > index d2247e80..198c51d1 100644
> > > --- a/bridge/fdb.c
> > > +++ b/bridge/fdb.c
> > > @@ -62,7 +62,10 @@ static const char *state_n2a(unsigned int s)
> > >       if (s & NUD_REACHABLE)
> > >               return "";
> > >
> > > -     sprintf(buf, "state=%#x", s);
> > > +     if (is_json_context())
> > > +             sprintf(buf, "%#x", s);
> > > +     else
> > > +             sprintf(buf, "state=%#x", s);
> > >       return buf;
> > >  }
> > >  
> >
> > Printing in non JSON case was also wrong.
> > i.e.
> >               ...  state state=0x80
> > should be:
> >               ... state 0x80
> >
> > Let's do that.
> >
> >
> > The state=xxx value only shows up if the FDB entry has a value bridge
> > command
> > doesn't understand. The bridge command needs to be able to display the new
> > flag values.  
> 
> 
> > Please fixup the two patches and resubmit to iproute2
> >  
> 
> I'll resubmit a patch for this specific issue, to handle both json and
> non-json case correctly
> but i don't think it's necessary to resubmit "bridge: fdb get: add missing
> json init (new_json_obj)"
> as it's a different issue.

Normally, if you submit a patch series, then you need to resubmit
the whole series. If you submit two separate patches then each one can
be reviewed and accepted alone.