Mark,

>From svn, cf-promises now validates the input file correctly - but cf-agent 
>evaluates using the pre-change semantics (fails just as cf-promises did). 

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Chris Faehl
Hosting Engineering Systems Manager, RightNow Technologies


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Burgess [mailto:mark.burg...@iu.hio.no] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:22 AM
To: Faehl, Chris
Cc: bug-cfengine@cfengine.org
Subject: Re: cf3: incorrect parsing or misdocumented file_select.search_owners 
attribute


Ok - I've thought about this now. Please try svn and tell me if it
works as expected.

M

Faehl, Chris wrote:
> Using cfengine 3.0.1 and cfengine 3 svn 328:
> Objective: find unowned files and assign them a default owner.
> Problem: search_owners doesn't seem to really accept regexes, as documented 
> examples suggest. Search_groups suffers this same malady. It's difficult to 
> see how the required objective could be met without at least working 
> character classes and the "+" operator.
> 
> Test case:
> body common control {
>         bundlesequence => { "s" };
> }
> bundle agent s {
>  files:
>         "/"
>                 file_select => noowner,
>                 perms => pnoowner,
>                 action => warn;
> }
> 
> body file_select noowner {
>         search_owners => { "[a-zA-Z0-9_.]+" };
>         file_result => "!owner";
> }
> 
> body action warn{
>         action_policy => "warn";
> }
> 
> body perms pnoowner {
>         owners => { "root" };
>         groups => { "root" };
> }
> 
> 
> Cf-promises -v -f ./test7.cf:
> .
> .
> .
> cf3   > Parsing file ./test7.cf
> cf3:./test7.cf:13,38: Scalar item in search_owners => { [a-zA-Z0-9_.]+ } in 
> rvalue is out of bounds (value should match pattern [a-zA-Z0-9_$.-]+), near 
> token '}'
> .
> .
> .
> 
> 
> Cf-promises -d2 -f ./test7.cf:
> .
> .
> .
> ------------------------------------------------
>  - Checking inline constraint/arg file_select[(ext body)] => mappedval 
> (bundle/body)
>  ------------------------------------------------
> Nothing to check for body reference
> end CheckConstraintTypeMatch---------
>   Post Check Constraint files: search_owners => {'[a-zA-Z0-9_.]+'}
>  ------------------------------------------------
>  - Checking inline constraint/arg search_owners[slist] => mappedval (l) 
> [a-zA-Z0-9_$.-]+
>  ------------------------------------------------
>  ------------------------------------------------
>  - Checking inline constraint/arg search_owners[slist] => mappedval (s) 
> [a-zA-Z0-9_$.-]+
>  ------------------------------------------------
> 
> CheckParseString(search_owners => [a-zA-Z0-9_.]+/[a-zA-Z0-9_$.-]+)
> Deleting scope match
> Object match exists
> Adding scope data match
> Regex [a-zA-Z0-9_$.-]+ did not match ([a-zA-Z0-9_.]+) exactly, but it matched 
> a part of it.
> IsCf3VarString([a-zA-Z0-9_.]+) - syntax verify
> Found 0 variables in ([a-zA-Z0-9_.]+)
> Validation: Scalar item in search_owners => { [a-zA-Z0-9_.]+ } in rvalue is 
> out of bounds (value should match pattern [a-zA-Z0-9_$.-]+)
> end CheckConstraintTypeMatch---------
>   Post Check Constraint files: file_result =>!owner
> .
> .
> .
> --
> Chris Faehl
> Hosting Engineering Systems Manager, RightNow Technologies
> 
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