ufw

Usage (help) invocation cleanup

Bug #1965462 reported by ooboo
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ufw
Fix Released
Wishlist
Jamie Strandboge

Bug Description

Currently if ufw is run without any arguments, nothing is shown, except the error:

$ ERROR: not enough args

If any argument (that is not known to ufw) is passed, the usage is shown, including the error:

$ ERROR: Invalid syntax
$
$ Usage: ufw COMMAND
$ ...

And of course, if a known argument is passed, usage is not printed along its output.

I see a biggest issue in the fact that ufw doesn't display usage with the first error while it does with the second (probably an early argument parsing issue). I don't want to be a smart ass, but it seems the code could make use of an error+usage print wrapper function/method.

Secondly there is currently no "standard" way (ufw -h) or at least a clean errorless one to display the usage. This is more of a formal issue, but just to point it out. In current implementation, user has to deliberately input garbage to get the program's help, which I believe is not in line with ufw's philosophy.

Tested on version 0.36.1.

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. I agree that the arg parsing is suboptimal. I should probably convert over to argparse but definitely something more modern, but that is a larger change. For now, I've committed a change to allow for '-h' and to show the help message when invoked without arguments.

Changed in ufw:
assignee: nobody → Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Fix Committed
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

This was fixed in 0.36.2.

Changed in ufw:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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ooboo (oobooboo) wrote :

Confirming it's working as expected now, thank you for the fix.

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