Thanks Matt!
Merged.

Cheers,
Ole

> On 10 Apr 2026, at 17:43, Matthew Smith via lists.fd.io 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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 
> <[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 
>> <[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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