Multi-sequence evaluation

Radek Pazdera rpazdera at redhat.com
Wed Aug 15 12:29:15 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:47:29PM +0200, Jan Tluka wrote:
> Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:26:13PM CEST, jpirko at redhat.com wrote:
> >Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:11:56PM CEST, jtluka at redhat.com wrote:
> >>Hello everybody,
> >>
> >>I'm thinking about changing current behavior in evaluating recipes with
> >>more than one command sequence.
> >>
> >>Currently if one of the command sequence fails the whole recipe is
> >>aborted and the rest of the command sequences won't be executed.
> >>
> >>Imagine you have the recipe split into several logical parts and you'd
> >>like to see if any of them pass. Currently you have to rely on all of them 
> >>to pass.
> >>
> >>I propose to add 'dont_stop' or 'continue_on_fail' option to
> >>command_sequence node. If it's set the following command sequence get's
> >>executed.
> >
> >
> >I think we were talking about this already in past.
> >
> >I think that it probably makes sense. How about "notfail" as default and
> >if user wants to specify some crucial sequence, add attribute
> >"quit_on_fail" ?
> >
> >Jiri
> >
> 
> Makes sense. I'll create ticket for this in trac. Also 'quit_on_fail'
> sounds much better.
>

Sounds good to me too :). I can have a look at it (it will require
a couple of changes in NetTestParse and NetTestController).

The attribute should be bolean 'quit_on_fail', set to zero by default?

> >>
> >>e.g.
> >>    <command_sequence continue_on_fail="yes">
> >>        <command simple_test>
> >>    </command_sequence>
> >>
> >>    <command_sequence>
> >>        <command simple_test_gets_executed_independent_on_previous_fail>
> >>    </command_sequence>
> >>
> >>    <command_sequence>
> >>        <command simple_test_gets_executed_if_previous_pass>
> >>    </command_sequence>
> >>
> >>Feel free to share your ideas!
> >>
> >>-Jan
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