[RFC PATCH v5] add JSON output to net ads

[Philipp Gesang]

-<| Quoting Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>, on Wednesday, 2018-08-22 09:12:30 AM |>-
> On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 08:29 +0200, Philipp Gesang via samba-technical
> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > this iteration addresses the comments to v4 by Andrew Bartlett
> > (tests, merge conflicts).
> > 
> > CI: https://gitlab.com/phgsng/samba/pipelines/28267867
> > 
> > A note on the tests: Instead of making the code that parses the
> > non-JSON output more permissive I chose to make the output of
> > “net ads lookup” more regular. As a consequence, The blackbox
> > tests now depend on this change. I’m aware that this change is
> > not entirely related to the patch series. If it is not acceptable
> > let me know and I’ll tweak the test code accordingly.
> 
> G'Day Philipp,
> 
> I'm still stumped as to how your patches differ from the ones that Gary
> had where we just couldn't make --json work.  

No idea, sorry.

> Can you push it to the https://gitlab.com/samba/devel/samba repo so we
> can see the full test run please?  

You mean https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/samba ?
                            ^^^^^^^^^^
Done: https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/samba/pipelines/28429561

> Can you please ensure your tests catch exceptions.  Allowing
> BlackboxProcessError seems quite wrong, that is exactly the type of
> error you should be looking for.

Ok, will do. I saw other tests wrapped to catch
BlackboxProcessError and assumed it signified a state where
something was wrong with the harness or environment.

> Finally if you run this against chgdcpass rather than the main
> ad_dc_ntvfs and ad_dc environments you will have it run in your more
> limited CI environment.  In a comment just explain that as this does
> not log in, we can spread the load and run it against another
> environment. 

> (Only the build_samba_ad_dc_2 runs in private repos, sadly the rest of
> the AD DC tests don't fit in the smaller free VMs provided by
> gitlab.com). 

Ok, will do.

Philipp

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