[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup v3] fix #4343: updated `view_task_result` to bail on task failure

[Gabriel Goller]

On 9/27/23 16:38, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 08/09/2023 um 15:32 schrieb Gabriel Goller:
>> Now we make an additional request on `api2/json/.../tasks/{upid}/status` to
>> get the `exitstatus` of the task. This allows us to `bail` and thus
>> get a non-zero exit code in the cli.
>> index 0bbb928d..709d0d08 100644
>> --- a/pbs-client/src/task_log.rs
>> +++ b/pbs-client/src/task_log.rs
>> @@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ pub async fn display_task_log(
>>               }
>>           }
>>   
>> +        let status_path = format!("api2/json/nodes/localhost/tasks/{upid_encoded}/status");
>> +        let status_result = client.get(&status_path, None).await?;
>> +        if status_result["data"]["status"].as_str() == Some("stopped")
>> +            && status_result["data"]["exitstatus"].as_str() != Some("OK")
>> +        {
>> +            bail!("task failed");
> Hmm, while writing the changelog for a next bump I noticed that this
> will now also exit with a failure-code when there are "only" warnings.
>
> Did you think about that case?
>
> Should we at least exit with different codes? I.e., so that tooling can
> differentiate between error, meaning complete failure, and warnings,
> meaning task probably did its main job, but something (recoverable) was
> off.
>
> IMO one could also argue that it would be sensible to exit with SUCCESS
> (0) even on warnings, as after all warnings should be only returned if
> the main job of the task was still successful, but, e.g., some
> deprecated config option was set or the like.
Yes, submitting a new patch. Now we use exit code 0 (SUCCESS)
on warnings as well.