Debug-Log CLI / API Changes

[William Reade]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Richard Harding <rick.harding at canonical.com
> wrote:

> +1 for regexes being overkill for the Gui use cases. We'll just allow them
> to tali the log for the environment, service, or unit. We'll never want to
> expose this to them in any way. It's a huge failing if I end up trying to
> ask the user for a regex to get at a log. If people want to grep through
> the results I'd say they should be able to do that from their own cli tools
> as you would do now. If I want to grep or grep -v something, why would I
> try to push it down the cli into the log command itself? I assume you're
> worried about sending more data over the wire than necessary? Is there some
> other motivation?
>

Yeah, that's the primary motivation. Probably less important now than it
was a year ago, when the logspam was really truly horrifying.


> For the record I do love me some regexes! Just not here in a cli flag.
>

If there's no immediate detailed-filtering use case for the GUI, I'll be
happy telling users to `| grep` on the CLI; and a little happier still from
not imposing subtle constraints on future evolution. If anyone has a
current use case that demands server-side filtering more granular than
per-entity, speak now or... well, at least, expect to wait a good while
before you're satisfied.

Cheers
William
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