[Nagiosplug-devel] --extra-opts (was: New Threshold Syntax)

[Páll Guðjón Sigurðsson]

Python's optparse does not support optional arguments and you are right, if what follows extra-opts is an option (like -jk) its easy to make an educated guess. However the spec said that extra-opts can be specified anywhere on the command-line and consider the following scenario:


# check_stuff --extra-opts host.example.com

In the above example its impossible to tell if "host.example.com" is a section name or an argument to the plugin.

For that reason, i'd like to propose that the spec removes the reference to --extra-opts without arguments and instead assumed the following (which are all fairly standard) to achieve the same effect.

--extra-opts=
--extra-opts=''
--extra-opts ''

I have no problem with current implementations that support the optional argument, but it feels quite quirky to me, and should be considered a "hidden feature" in current implementations :)

Cheers,
Palli



----- Original Message -----
From: "Holger Weiß" <holger at cis.fu-berlin.de>
To: "Nagios Plugins Development" <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:04:44 PM
Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] --extra-opts (was: New Threshold Syntax)

* Páll Guðjón Sigurðsson <palli at ok.is> [2013-09-03 13:55]:
> 1) By observing the examples it seems the following is allowed:
> # ./check_stuff --extra-opts=@/etc/myconfig.ini
> # ./check_stuff --extra-opts -jk --some-other-opt
> 
> The latter one causes confusing ambiguity and its not supported by
> python's OptionParser.

Just to clarify: the ambiguity is about

	-extra-opts=-jk
vs.
	-jk --extra-opts

and the thing not supported by Python's OptionParser is options that
take an optional argument?

I would've thought that "--extra-opts -jk" is quite obviously meant to
be equivalent to "-jk --extra-opts"; but if your parser doesn't support
this, that's of course a major problem.  Hmm.

Holger

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