On 6/12/19 5:48 AM, William Brown wrote:

On 12 Jun 2019, at 11:27, thierry bordaz <tbor...@redhat.com> wrote:



On 6/12/19 9:22 AM, Ludwig Krispenz wrote:
Hi Mark,

On 06/11/2019 08:15 PM, Mark Reynolds wrote:
I am currently working on a revision of replication agreement status messages.  
Previously we logged the status like so:

     Error (%d) - message (sub-message) ...
just to get it clear what you suggest, I was a bit confused about first.

Do you talk about logging (as in the error log) or about the value of the 
replicaLastUpdateStatus attribute ?
The BZ mention replicaLastUpdateStatus (like "last update status: Error (18) 
Replication error acquiring replica: Incremental update transient error. Backing off, 
will retry update later. (transient error)")

I agree it is good idea to provide a json status. Should it replaces the "human 
readable" format with a json format I would prefer to be compatible with a new 
status attribute replicaLastUpdateStatusJson.
This could be an excellent approach to support a human and json status in 
parallel - given that we can very cheaply provide both, and then we satisfy a 
broader range of consumers. Great idea, I support this.

Ludwig, just to clarify I am not referring to logging but to the status attribute in the agreement entry:  replicaLastUpdateStatus

Going back to the topic at hand, it looks like the consensus is both text and JSON :-)  Improve existing text messages (use Error (%d), Warning (%d), and Info), and then add a second attribute with a JSON text string that can be parsed by clients.  I will write up a design doc and send it out for review...


theirry
For logging into the error log I prefer to keep the current, "readable" format 
- until we do a real rework of logging.
For the storage of a state in the agreement I think switching to the json 
object is ok
If Error was set to 0 it meant success, but this caused confusion because of the word 
"Error".  So I am working on changing this.

There are two options here: change the static "Error" text to be dynamic: "Info", 
"Warning", or "Error" depending on the state. Or, move away from a human friendly text string to a 
machine friendly simple JSON object.  There are pro's and con's to both. I think moving towards a JSON object is the 
correct way - easier to maintain, and easier to be consumed by other applications. The cons are that it is a disruptive 
change to the previous behavior, and it could be confusing to an Admin who might not understand JSON.

This is the basic JSON object I was thinking of

     {"status": "Good|Warning|Bad", "status code": NUMBER(aka error code), "date": 
"2019117485748745Z", "message": "Message text"}

or maybe multiple messages (list):

     {"status": "Good|Warning|Bad", "status code": NUMBER(aka error code), "date": "2019117485748745Z", 
"message": ["the replication status is...", "Connection error 91", "Server Down"]}


The JSON object can easily be extended without breaking clients, but it's not 
easy to read for a human.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Mark
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