commit 72d8758fdc2266b9f4cd53063da2d23f0855c1df
author Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com> Fri May 10 12:01:10 2019 +0200
committer Paul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com> Fri May 10 21:50:34 2019 +0000
tree 972c5260846e3cc5c10a9be8c6318812ed5faa75
parent f89a6de8f032536080c4a11b267bf921093d3740

cli: Add return value in cli_inband

Even when a CLI command called through the cli_inband API failed
the API would return 0 (SUCCESS). This patch fixes that,
but since most CLI handlers return error->code == 0,
in most failure cases it will return -1 (UNSPECIFIED ERROR).

Type: fix

Change-Id: Ic83f3b23e8e8954bb8aa211301baba24e8c20ef6
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>

src/vlib/cli.c

diff --git a/src/vlib/cli.c b/src/vlib/cli.c
index 4e8f3ae..835cb87 100644
--- a/src/vlib/cli.c
+++ b/src/vlib/cli.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@
 }
 
 /* Process CLI input. */
-void
+int
 vlib_cli_input (vlib_main_t * vm,
 		unformat_input_t * input,
 		vlib_cli_output_function_t * function, uword function_arg)
@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@
   clib_error_t *error;
   vlib_cli_output_function_t *save_function;
   uword save_function_arg;
+  int rv = 0;
 
   save_function = cp->output_function;
   save_function_arg = cp->output_function_arg;
@@ -713,11 +714,15 @@
     {
       vlib_cli_output (vm, "%v", error->what);
       vlib_unix_error_report (vm, error);
+      /* clib_error_return is unfortunately often called with a '0'
+         return code */
+      rv = error->code != 0 ? error->code : -1;
       clib_error_free (error);
     }
 
   cp->output_function = save_function;
   cp->output_function_arg = save_function_arg;
+  return rv;
 }
 
 /* Output to current CLI connection. */

src/vlib/cli.h

diff --git a/src/vlib/cli.h b/src/vlib/cli.h
index a81e964..13216dc 100644
--- a/src/vlib/cli.h
+++ b/src/vlib/cli.h
@@ -186,10 +186,10 @@
 void vlib_cli_output (struct vlib_main_t *vm, char *fmt, ...);
 
 /* Process CLI input. */
-void vlib_cli_input (struct vlib_main_t *vm,
-		     unformat_input_t * input,
-		     vlib_cli_output_function_t * function,
-		     uword function_arg);
+int vlib_cli_input (struct vlib_main_t *vm,
+		    unformat_input_t * input,
+		    vlib_cli_output_function_t * function,
+		    uword function_arg);
 
 clib_error_t *vlib_cli_register (struct vlib_main_t *vm,
 				 vlib_cli_command_t * c);

src/vpp/api/api.c

diff --git a/src/vpp/api/api.c b/src/vpp/api/api.c
index c5c2480..b389a7a 100644
--- a/src/vpp/api/api.c
+++ b/src/vpp/api/api.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
 
   unformat_init_string (&input, (char *) vl_api_from_api_string (&mp->cmd),
 			vl_api_string_len (&mp->cmd));
-  vlib_cli_input (vm, &input, inband_cli_output, (uword) & out_vec);
+  rv = vlib_cli_input (vm, &input, inband_cli_output, (uword) & out_vec);
 
   len = vec_len (out_vec);