On 2/9/13 7:22 PM, "Mr Dash Four" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>>>> Patch attached -- it allows parameters to be omitted in action
>>>> invocations.
>>> action1
>>> ~~~~~~~
>>> action2($1,$2,$3,$4)
>>>
>>> rules
>>> ~~~~~
>>> action1(one,two,three)
>>>
>>>
>>> I get: "ERROR: Invalid action parameter ($4)
>>> /etc/shorewall/action.action1"
>> 
>> If you don't pass a parameter to an action, but refer to the parameter
>>in
>> the body then you must specify a default value using a DEFAULTS entry.
>I thought the whole point of your patch was that "it allows parameters to
>be omitted", so by extension, if $4 doesn't have a value, then the
>"action2($1,$2,$3,$4)" call should be the equivalent of
>"action2(one,two,three,)" like it is with any bash variables - if you
>refer to them and they do not have a value then no value should be
>assigned/printed. You have a similar arrangement with action variables
>(IGNOREUNKNOWNVARIABLES), so I don't see how is this any different.
>
>If that cannot be accomplished, then I see little use of your patch to be
>honest and I may as well revert back to my ?IF ?ELSE ?ENDIF statements
>I've had before and get it over with.

Well, it isn't happening in 4.5.13. So if you think it is better to code
your ?ifŠ?else mess than adding a single "DEFAULTS -,-,-,-" at the
beginning of action.action1, then that is certainly your choice. But I
know what I would choose to do.

-Tom
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to
skydive twice.





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