Re: "commands: arglist" mismatch between behaviour and documentation?

I appear no longer to have login access to be able to report issues.  
(Previous issues with my involvement include CFE-3020, CFE-1655, CFE-2908, 
etc.)  I'm trying to regain that access, but it is not proving easy!  If 
that can be restored then I can report the issue.

Otherwise, could you log the issue for me?

Thanks.

-- David Lee
On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 at 14:55:30 UTC+1 
[email protected] wrote:

> On Wed, 2023-09-13 at 06:38 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > Using 3.18.5 community edition on RHEL9; also 3.15 on RHEL7 and RHEL8
> > 
> > Documentation 
> https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/3.18/reference-promise-types-commands.html 
> gives the example:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > commands: "/bin/echo one" args => "two three", arglist => { "four", 
> "five" };
> > So in the example above the command would be:
> >  /bin/echo one two three four five
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > It also states:-------------------------------------------------
> > That's particularly useful when there are embedded spaces and quotes in 
> your arguments...
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > So I'm trying to build something, specifically requiring that "embedded 
> spaces" claim.  But I hit a problem, so strip it down to a proof-of-concept 
> script:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > #! /bin/bash
> > echo "argcount: $#"
> > for (( i=1 ; i<=$#; i++))
> > do    
> >   echo "${i}:${!i}"
> > done
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > At the command line I verify the script:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > $ ./modules/printargs A B "C with spaces" D
> > argcount: 4
> > 1:A
> > 2:B
> > 3:C with spaces
> > 4:D
> > $ 
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > (Four arguments, the third being three words with embedded spaces.)
> > 
> > I then run it from within our CFEngine framework:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >   commands:
> >     any::
> >       "$(gcom.modulesdir)/printargs"
> >         arglist => { "A", "B", "C with spaces", "D" };
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > But instead of receiving four arguments, it receives six: here's the CFE 
> "inform" output:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >     info: Executing 'no timeout' ... '[...]/modules/printargs A B C with 
> spaces D'
> >   notice: Q: ".../printargs A B ": argcount: 6
> > Q: ".../printargs A B ": 1:A
> > Q: ".../printargs A B ": 2:B
> > Q: ".../printargs A B ": 3:C
> > Q: ".../printargs A B ": 4:with
> > Q: ".../printargs A B ": 5:spaces
> > Q: ".../printargs A B ": 6:D
> >     info: Last 7 quoted lines were generated by promiser
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >  That useful "embedded spaces" claim in the documentation seems to be 
> being ignored.
> > 
> > Is the bug/problem:
> >  * in the code
> >  * or in the documentation
> >  * or in my interpretation of the documentation
> > Help appreciated
> Definitely looks like a bug in the CFEngine code to me. I'm just surprised 
> there's no failing test
> for this. Please report the issue at 
> https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/CFE
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Vratislav
>

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