On Monday 16 of January 2012 02:19:39 Parsons, Aron wrote: > I was making use of configchannel_import in spacecmd at work last week and > noticed that the API seems to eat newlines at the end of a file; what you > put in is not what you get out.
I've introduced configchannel.getEncodedFileRevision API for these cases. It'll be included in spacewalk-java nightly packages since version 1.7.8-1. Regards, -- Tomas Lestach RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat > Some applications handle it fine, others > not so well; sssd is an example of an application that pukes without a > trailing newline. It affects other API calls as well, such as the snippet > ones. However, those don't matter as much as the configuration files. > > I debugged it a bit and it goes all the way down to the Redstone XML-RPC > library trimming whitespace; XmlRpcParser.consumeCharData() calls trim() on > the string. Due to the access modifiers on some of the variables in the > class, we can't just create subclass to override that method > (consumeCharData() makes use of private variables). > > Steve, > Do you want to try and find a workaround or just call this out in the > documentation for the configchannel_import function? I don't want to say > it makes configchannel_import worthless, but without a fix, I know I can't > rely on it for the job it intends to do. > > /aron > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-devel mailing list > Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
