[PATCH] virsh: Require --xpath for dumpxml

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 10:49:13 UTC 2022


Historically, the dumpxml command reject any unknown arguments,
for instance:

    virsh dumpxml fedora xxx

However, after v8.5.0-rc1~31 the second argument ('xxx') is
treated as an XPath, but it's not that clearly visible.
Therefore, require the --xpath switch, like this:

    virsh dumpxml fedora --xpath xxx

Yes, this breaks already released virsh, but I think we can argue
that the pool of users of this particular function is very small.
The sooner we do this change, the better.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2103524
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 tools/virsh-domain.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/virsh-domain.c b/tools/virsh-domain.c
index 43034f2f81..a181ae005f 100644
--- a/tools/virsh-domain.c
+++ b/tools/virsh-domain.c
@@ -10461,6 +10461,7 @@ static const vshCmdOptDef opts_dumpxml[] = {
     },
     {.name = "xpath",
      .type = VSH_OT_STRING,
+     .flags = VSH_OFLAG_REQ_OPT,
      .completer = virshCompleteEmpty,
      .help = N_("xpath expression to filter the XML document")
     },
-- 
2.35.1



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