Service values are translated (so you can't use them in scripts)

[Ted Gould]

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/cmd/snap/cmd_services.go#L140

The values that are put into the table of the service command are translated. This makes it so that having a script that checks for "active" is unreliable.

I understand if this is considered a "human" command, but there are no other machine commands that are available to get this data.

[Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)]

Hi Ted :), thanks for reporting. I think I agree with you on that, and that would match systemctl behavior (also, we are not super consistent in that regard and many commands don't use translated strings); OTOH we generally encourage one to use snapd's REST API (added benefit is API stability, whereas the output of commands might change).

I'll see what I can do about it.

[Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)]

PR is here: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/10750 but it seems opinions about that vary.

[Samuele Pedroni (pedronis)]

the suggestion from he PR is to use the LC_* variables to force the C locale instead in the script