Multi-sequence evaluation

Jan Tluka jtluka at redhat.com
Wed Aug 15 12:45:17 UTC 2012


Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:29:15PM CEST, rpazdera at redhat.com wrote:
>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?
>

I have the work already done. Should be sent in few minutes.

-Jan

>> >>
>> >>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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