[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virt-manager error msg fixup

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:18:05PM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote:
> Cole Robinson wrote:
> >The error message that pops up when the user tries to enter an invalid 
> >guest name doesn't correctly list valid name characters (it was missing 
> >the '-').
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Cole
> >
> >
> Applied, thanks!
> 
> However: What we really want to do here is stop validating this stuff in 
> virt-manager at all. We have validation both in virt-manager and 
> virtinst and in a couple of places it disagrees... grr... What we should 
> really do is abstract this kind of validation into virtinst/util.py I 
> think, that way we have only one regex.

Yes, we shoiuld have a 'virtinst/validation.py'  module with functions
for validating all the common things we check - virt-install is probably
the best source for taking the validation code from - Fujitsu folks
have put alot of effort into making sure the command line tools do
full validation.

Dan.
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