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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Review Request 119576: how to protect a command from a change by using astyle
From:       "David Jarvie" <djarvie () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-08-04 16:33:56
Message-ID: 20140804163356.20973.4659 () probe ! kde ! org
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> On Aug. 4, 2014, 1:20 p.m., Dan Vrátil wrote:
> > Sorry, this is not the right solution - there are many other places in Akonadi \
> > where we use X-AKAPPEND that could potentially get broken by astyle and we can't \
> > just workaround everything by making it a string. Altering the code just so that \
> > astyle understands it is not the right approach :) 
> > As I mentioned in my email to you, next time I just have to be more careful when \
> > reviewing the changes.
> 
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Are you sure?
> Here it is a string, just that the quotes are added by the macro.
> 
> Do we have any code that uses a character that looks like a minus but isn't and is \
> not inside a string literal? 
> Guy Maurel wrote:
> NO, we don't have (akonadi) *many* places where we use X-AKAPPEND.
> The first place is libs/protocol_p.h:84:#define AKONADI_CMD_ITEMCREATE       \
> "X-AKAPPEND" Many other places are such \
> server/tests/unittest/akappendhandlertest.cpp:157:        return "C: 2 X-AKAPPEND \
> "... using it as a string.
> Under kdepimlibs/akonadi you can find:
> src/core/jobs/itemcreatejob.cpp:176:        command += " X-AKAPPEND ";
> 
> Having a look to src/5/kde/kdepimlibs/akonadi
> There are more than 7000 lines with a minus-sign.
> All are arithmetic operators, or strings with "" or charcter with ''.

Even if the existing code is changed so that astyle can be run without breaking it, \
there is always the potential for future changes which could be broken by astyle. So \
I would agree with Dan that altering the code is the wrong approach, since astyle can \
never be guaranteed to work without issues.


- David


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On Aug. 2, 2014, 5:03 p.m., Guy Maurel wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 2, 2014, 5:03 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for KDEPIM and Dan Vrátil.
> 
> 
> Repository: akonadi
> 
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> Description
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> 
> astyle cannot (yet) distinguite a hythen from a minus character.
> Using a "string" such as X-AKAPPEND in the macro MAKE_CMD_ROW is a problem.
> astyle surounds the - with spaces.
> I propose to use a second macro MAKE_CMD_ROW2 providing the string as "X-AKAPPEND".
> It might be prettier to do this for all the commands.
> 
> The problem could also happens for the commands:
> X-AKLIST and X-AKLSUB
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> server/tests/unittest/handlertest.cpp 6fc5d66 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119576/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Guy Maurel
> 
> 

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