Feature Proposals » manage script to be made program friendly

Motivation

The manage script may be used from a program -- either via HTTP or by program execution. In that case, it's handy if an operation success/failure can be determined easily by the program.

Description and Documentation

The TWiki::OopsException with the following def values will return "400 bad request" status code.

• unrecognized_action
• missing_action
• notwikiuser
• in_a_group
• wrong_password
• web_missing
• invalid_web_name
• no_web_metadata
• base_web_missing
• web_exists
• topic_exists_new_web
• invalid_web_color
• web_creation_error
• not_wikiword
• delete_err
• move_err
• rename_topic_exists
• web_exists_topic_rename
• system_web_name
• rename_web_exists
• topic_exists_web_rename
• rename_web_prerequisites
• rename_err
• rename_web_err
• save_error

The TWiki::OopsException with following def values is already returning 4XX status code.

• post_method_only
• topic_access

In addition, when the manage script is executed from command line, if it causes 4XX status code, it will exist with 1 status code. Otherwise, it exists with 0. This will make it trivial to determine if the manage script execution succeeded or not.

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: Hideyo Imazu - 2020-06-10

Discussion

Perfect, any improvements that support automation is good!

-- Peter Thoeny - 2020-06-11