Bug 881366 – Wallaby shell modify-* commands do not accept empty strings as arguments

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Bug 881366 - Wallaby shell modify-* commands do not accept empty strings as arguments

Summary:	Wallaby shell modify-* commands do not accept empty strings as arguments

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise MRG
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	wallaby-utils (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	medium Severity low
Target Milestone:	2.3
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Assigned To:	Robert Rati
QA Contact:	Lubos Trilety
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Blocks:	880973
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Reported:	2012-11-28 14:19 EST by Robert Rati
Modified:	2013-03-06 13:47 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	wallaby-0.16.2-1
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Trying to empty a metadata field with any wallaby shell modify commands would produce an error Consequence: It was not possible to set metadata fields to empty strings Fix: The wallaby shell modify commands now accept empty values Result: It is now possible to set metadata fields to empty values
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Last Closed:	2013-03-06 13:47:31 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:0564	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Low: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid 2.3 security update	2013-03-06 18:37:09 EST

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Description Robert Rati 2012-11-28 14:19:12 EST

Description of problem:
It's not possible to blank entity metadata with an empty string, and trying to do so produces an error.  This is causing issues with ccs/ccp since a user could set metadata to an empty string from a non-string value.

$ wallaby modify-param --default-val ""
invalid argument: --default-val 
Usage:  wallaby modify-param PARAMETER [...] [OPTIONS]
    -h, --help                       displays this message
        --description VALUE          Sets the description property of the modified parameter
                                        (valid values are strings)
        --kind VALUE                 Sets the kind property of the modified parameter
                                        (valid values are strings)
        --needs-restart VALUE        Sets the needsRestart property of the modified parameter
                                        (valid values are "yes", "no")
        --default-val VALUE          Sets the default_val property of the modified parameter
                                        (valid values are strings)
        --must-change VALUE          Sets the must_change property of the modified parameter
                                        (valid values are "yes", "no")
        --level VALUE                Sets the level property of the modified parameter
                                        (valid values are integers)
        --annotation VALUE           Sets the annotation property of the modified parameter
                                        (valid values are strings)
 
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How reproducible:
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Comment 1 Robert Rati 2012-11-28 14:36:31 EST

Corrected repo:
wallaby modify-param PAR --default-val ""

Comment 3 Lubos Trilety 2013-01-10 10:01:15 EST

Tested with:
wallaby-utils-0.16.3-1

Tested on:
RHEL6 i386,x86_64
RHEL5 i386,x86_64

# wallaby modify-param PAR --default-val '' --kind '' --annotation '' --description ''
Console Connection Established...
Modifying the following parameter: PAR with {:kind=>"", :annotation=>"", :default_val=>"", :description=>""}

# wallaby show-param PAR
Console Connection Established...
PAR
  kind:  ""
  default:  ""
  description:  ""
  must_change:  false
  requires_restart:  false
  visibility_level:  0
  depends:  []
  conflicts:  []
  annotation:  ""

>>> verified

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-06 13:47:31 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0564.html

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