Hi Ole,

Here's a patch which I think should help correct the issue -
https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/45490. Would you mind reviewing it?

Thanks,
-Matt


On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 3:37 PM Ole Troan via lists.fd.io <otroan=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> Thanks for fixing this one.
> Yes this seems like a sound plan!
>
> Best regards,
> Ole
>
> On 8 Apr 2026, at 21:24, Matthew Smith via lists.fd.io <mgsmith=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi,
>
> A patch went in a while back that broke my client code which sends the
> gre_tunnel_dump API and processes the replies. Here's the patch -
> https://github.com/FDio/vpp/commit/74cf96576768f6e9200848c613428990049b3563
> .
>
> This was discovered a couple of months ago when we updated our build from
> stable/2506 to stable/2510. At the time, we just applied a patch locally to
> make things work because we did not have time to properly fix it. I'm
> trying to update again from stable/2510 to stable/2602 so I thought I
> should probably fix it upstream for real this time.
>
> Here are some details on the issues:
>
> The patch adds a global 'option status = "in_progress";'. I have seen that
> option on individual API messages but I have no idea whether this has any
> meaning when declared globally. Is this a valid usage or is it just being
> silently ignored by vppapigen?
>
> It also adds this service definition:
>
> service {
>   rpc gre_tunnel_dump returns gre_tunnel_dump_reply events
> gre_tunnel_details;
>   rpc gre_tunnel_dump_v2 returns gre_tunnel_dump_v2_reply events
> gre_tunnel_details_v2;
> };
>
> I don't think "events" is correct there. I think if the API handlers for
> gre_tunnel_dump and gre_tunnel_dump_v2 used a cursor and the macros to send
> details messages in batches, it might be appropriate to use "stream" there
> instead of event. As it is, those API handlers don't do that cursor magic,
> they just iterate all GRE tunnels and send details messages without sending
> the reply message (i.e. typical dump/details behavior), so really this
> service definition and the dump_reply/dump_reply_v2 message types might be
> entirely useless.
>
> I don't think vppapigen does the right thing with the names
> gre_tunnel_dump_v2 and gre_tunnel_details_v2. The script expects
> _dump/_details at the end of a dump/details API name. The new APIs should
> be called gre_tunnel_v2_dump/gre_tunnel_v2_details. Random non sequitur -
> there is one other dump/details message that likely has this problem
> - policer_dump_v2.
>
> So... I'm trying to figure out how to make things work correctly again.
> Ideally we could revert the patch and tell the author "try again". But it
> was merged > 6 months ago and it adds new functionality (support for GRE
> key), which I assume someone somewhere might care about and would not like
> to disappear. So just reverting it is probably not the nice thing to do at
> this point. So the second best option here IMO would be:
>
>    - Remove the global option status in_progress. Even if it's a valid
>    configuration, I don't think the GRE APIs, which were formerly considered
>    production, should be considered "in progress".
>    - Put gre_tunnel_dump back the way it was before (remove it from that
>    service rpc definition, remove or deprecate the unused
>    gre_tunnel_dump_reply)
>    - Either rename the new APIs or add new ones with the correct names
>    and mark the bad ones deprecated so they can be removed later.
>
> Does this seem like a sound plan? Is any of this going to trip up the crc
> checker script? Is there some reason why the stuff I wrote above is wrong
> and this patch is good and I should leave it alone?
>
> Thanks,
> -Matt
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
>
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