Anderson Silva wrote:
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>> Excellent, this is all applied now and pushed.
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>> I made a few minor changes to add some error handling and also be able 
>> to search better through the field lists.
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> Changes are always welcome :-)
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>> Some possible improvements would be to add the "--type" syntax to report 
>> commands invocated with "cobbler system report", so you could do 
>> "cobbler system report --type=csv --fields=name,mac_address"instead of 
>> having to remember "cobbler report --what=systems --type=csv 
>> --fields=name,mac_address". 
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> Yeah, to be honest, I wanted to do that, but I was having a little bit
> of an issue on what would be the best way to get that done in the code.
> If you have any tips so I can give it a shot it would be greatly
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It's probably going to be a bit interesting as those are a bit special 
cased. The code to do things like "cobbler system add" are managed by 
things like cli_system.py, so it's mostly an issue of making sure that 
the options get added there and that commands.py knows what to do with them.





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>  That would basically make both work the
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>> same.   Other neat things would be to add simple fixed-with formatting 
>> so you could make a easily human (not Wiki) readable output formatted 
>> with %20s style widths for fields for just including in email or 
>> skimming over by humans.
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> Hmm, yeah, I like that, that didn't even cross my mind.
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>> (I also think "--type" probably should named "format" so I'll go ahead 
>> and take care of that.)
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> Sounds great.
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>> Thanks!
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> I will gladly try to add the 2 new features you are talking about, but
> it may be a week or two until I get the chance to sit down with it again.
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>> --Michael
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No rush, what we have here is already very nice to have.

--Michael
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