Bug 976621

Summary:	[Docs] - ovirt-engine-cli : show event -id accept strings instead of numeric values
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Andrew Burden <aburden>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Charlie <cboyle>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	3.3.0	CC:	acathrow, alyoung, gklein, rlandman, yeylon
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Improvement
Target Release:	3.3.0
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Whiteboard:	infra
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Clone Of:	886786	Environment:
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Bug Depends On:	886786
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Description Andrew Burden 2013-06-21 03:41:36 UTC

Ensure that this is properly documented


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #886786 +++


i would not call this a bug, see help for this command [1], id should be
of string type, but we can implement auto-boxing to strings.

[1]

[oVirt shell (connected)]# help show event 

USAGE
  
  - show <type>
      
  - show <type> <id> [object identifiers]
  
DESCRIPTION
  
  Shows an object by type 'event'. See 'help show' for generic
  help on showing objects.
  
ATTRIBUTE OPTIONS
  
  The following options are available for objects with type 'event':
  
    * [--id :string]
    * [--name: string]

Comment 1 Charlie 2013-10-02 01:43:29 UTC

Build Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization-Command_Line_Shell_Guide-3.3-web-en-US-3.3.0-003.el6eng

The initial problem of what input the command would accept (for example, strings, numerics etc.) has been fixed at the program level so it now accepts a range of inputs. However, the 'Show Event' command was not documented, this has now been added as step 15 in:

3.1. Creating a Basic Virtualization Environment with the CLI:
Procedure 3.1. Quick Start Example:

http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.3/html-single/Command_Line_Shell_Guide/index.html#Quick_Start_Example