5. Change log

5.1. pywbemtools 0.8.2.dev1

Released: not yet

Incompatible changes:

Deprecations:

Bug fixes:

  • Docs: Fixed incorrect removal of ‘off’ value for the –log option that was done in version 0.8.1.
  • Mitigated the coveralls HTTP status 422 by pinning coveralls-python to <3.0.0.

Enhancements:

Cleanup:

Known issues:

5.1.1. pywbemtools 0.8.1

Released: 2021-01-02

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a ValueError on Windows that was raised when the connections file was not on the home drive.
  • Limit click package to < 8.0 because of a) incompatibility with python 2.7, b) incompatibility between click 8.0 and clicl-repl. (see issues #816 and #817)
  • Limit mock package to lt 4.0.3 to avoid issue issue that causes test failure. (see #822)
  • Increased minimum pywbem version from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 to pick up fixes.

Enhancements:

  • Migrated from Travis and Appveyor to GitHub Actions. This required several changes in package dependencies for development.

5.1.2. pywbemtools 0.8.0

This version contains all fixes up to pywbemtools 0.7.3.

Released: 2020-10-13

Incompatible changes:

  • Moving the commands “server profiles” and “serve centralinsts” to the new group profiles with the commmand names “profile list” and “profile centralinsts” added a command group and removed 2 commands from the server command group. (See issue #612)
  • The –deprecation-warnings / –no-deprecation-warnings general option has been remamed to –warn / –no-warn, and it now controls the display of all Python warnings.

Bug fixes:

  • Order display of instance names when the .? is used to pick an instance name so the same order of instance names is displayed for all versions of Python. (See issue #458 and #459)
  • Pinned prompt-toolkit to <3.0 on Python 3.8 on Windows to avoid WinError 995. (See issue #690)
  • Fixed exception when command entered in interactive mode, on Python 2. (See issue #224)
  • Test: Default connection file does not get restored in some cases during test. (See issue #680)
  • AssociationShrub produces instancename slightly different table output in some cases for pywbem 1 vs previous versions(inclusion of “/:” prefix). (see issue #704)
  • Test: Fixed attempt in test_class_cmds.py to invoke a non-static method on a class object. (see issue #707)
  • Fix help message for “–deprecated” to be unicode so python 2.7 help does not fail. (see issue #725). This error was added with issue #678
  • Upgraded nocasedict and nocaselist packages to pick up fixes.
  • Error in test defintion for qualdecl Indication causes failure with pywbem i.1.0 where mocker validates qualifiers scopes. (see issue #766)
  • Test: Preventive fix for potential issue with virtualenv raising AttributeError during installtest on Python 3.4. (see issue #775)
  • Test: Added checking for no expected warning. (see issue #774)
  • Fixed incorrect property order in instance table output, where key properties were not ordered before non-key properties but ordered along with them. (see issue #782)
  • Docs/Test: Fixed failing install of Jinja2 on Python 3.4 by adding it to dev-requirements.txt and pinning it to <2.11 for Python 3.4.
  • Test: Aligned qualifier definitions in test MOF with CIM Schema. (related to issue #788)
  • Upgraded pywbem to 1.1.1 to pick up fixes and enhancements. (see issues #749, #183)

Enhancements:

  • Introduced caching of the mock environment used by connection definitions in order to speed up the loading of the connection definition. The mock environments are stored in directory ~/.pywbemcli_mockcache and are automatically managed. The pywbemcli –verbose general option can be used to show messages about the cache management. (See issue #689)
  • A new approach for the setup of mock scripts has been introduced: The mock script defines a setup(conn, server, verbose) function that is called when the mock environment is built. It is not called when the mock environment is reinstantiated from the cache. The old approach with setting global variables CONN, SERVER, VERBOSE is still supported, but the mock environment cannot be cached and will be built every time when mock scripts with that setup approach are used. On Python <3.5, mock scripts with the setup() function are rejected, because the functionality to import them is not available, and the compile+exec approach does not allow executing the setup() function. (See issue #689)
  • Modify general help to display the full path of the default connections file. (See issue #660)
  • Move the commands associated with WBEM management profiles from the server group to a new profile group. (See issue #612). See also Incompatible changes.
  • Add –deprecated/-no-deprecated as a new qualifier filter for the class enumerate, class find, and instance count commands. Extend the behavior so that for each of the possible filters it looks for the qualifier on all of the elements (property, method, parameter) in addition to the class itself. See issue #678)
  • Test: Enabled coveralls to run on all Python versions in the Travis CI, resulting in a combined coverage for all Python versions.
  • For instance display in table format, added the display of the units of properties to the table headers. If a property in the class has a PUnit or Units qualifier set, the unit is translated to a human readable SI unit using the pywbem.siunit_obj() function, and appended to the property name in square brackets. (See issue #727)
  • Consolidated the warnings control, such that the deprecation messages were changed to be issued as Python warnings, and the –warn / –no-warn general options now control the display of all Python warnings. If –warn is used, all Python warnings are shown once. If –no-warn is used (default), the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable determines which warnings are shown. If that variable is not set, no warnings are shown. (See issue #723) Added the ‘mock’ package and for Python 2.7, the ‘funcsigs’ package as new dependencies.
  • Specifying a property list (–pl option) on instance commands with table output formats now uses the order of properties as specified in the property list in the output table, instead of sorting them. (See issue #702)
  • Allow unsetting general options. Originally the general options could be either set specifically by defining them on the command line or the default would be enabled. However, in interactive mode the need may arise to set an option back to its default value (i.e. the equivalent of not including it on the command line). This fixes the options so that there is an alternative that will will set them to the default value. (see issue #350)
  • Converted remaining unittest testcases to pytest. (See issue #91)
  • Test: When testing with latest package levels, the package versions of indirect dependencies are now also upgraded to the latest compatible version from Pypi. (see issue #784)

Cleanup

  • Remove unused NocaseList from __common.py
  • Moved the general option –pull_max_cnt to become part of the persistent server definition rather than transient. This means that this parameter is part of the data maintained in the server definitionfile and applies to just the server defined. (See issue #694)
  • Docs: Improved the description and help texts of the connections file and the –connections-file general option in various places, for consistency. (Related to issue #708)
  • Move code associated with display_cimobjects() to a separate module. This is part of creating table representation of classes (See issue #249)
  • Resolved remaining Pylint issues and enforced clean pylint checks. (See issue #668)
  • Renamed the default connections file in the user’s home directory from pywbemcli_connection_definitions.yaml to .pywbemcli_connections.yaml, because it is really an internal file not meant for being edited. An existing file with the old name is migrated automatically. (See issue #716)
  • Refactor error handling for connections file handlingif there are problems with the YAML file or loading the file. Created new exceptions for the Connections File and created a unit test and function error test. (see issue #661)
  • Separate code to execute test files (ex. setup up mock of prompt) from the process of executing files defined by the –mock-server general option. The new capability is controled by an environment variable “PYWBEMCLI_STARTUP_SCRIPT” that is considered intenal to pywbemcli testing.
  • Refactor statistics display to present information consistent with the display in pywbem. (see issue # 724)
  • Refactor connections show command and clean up its documentation. (see issue #732)
  • Remove use of pydicti dictionary package in favor of NocaseDict.
  • set pylint disable on all uses of pdb.set_trace(). This is an issue between the add-on package pdbpp and lint, not pdb. (see issue # 751)
  • Docs: Changed Sphinx theme to sphinx_rtd_theme. (see issue #792)
  • Modified the class WbemServerMock in tests/unit/testmock to define a WBEM server configuration that includes multiple namespaces, a user and an interop namespace to test cross-namespace mock. (see issue #183)

5.1.3. pywbemtools 0.7.0

This version contains all fixes up to pywbemtools 0.6.1.

Released: 2020-07-12

Incompatible changes:

  • The default location for the connections file (pywbemcli_connection_definitions.yaml) has been moved from the users current directory to the users home directory. A general option (connections_file) allows the user to set other directories and file names for this file. (See issue #596)

Deprecations:

  • Deprecated support for Python 2.7 and 3.4, because these Python versions have reached their end of life. A future version of pywbemtools will remove support for Python 2.7 and 3.4. (see issue #630).

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed incorrect connection list output in readme files (see issue #593).
  • Fixed yaml.RepresenterError during ‘connection save’ command. This introduced a dependency on the yamlloader package. (see issue #603).
  • Fixed possible issue where the connection test command would fail on a server that did not support class operations. (See issue #606)
  • Pinned version of colorama to <0.4.0 for Python <=3.4.
  • Adjusted to changes in the pywbem mock support for method providers, in the sample method provider simple_mock_invokemethod_pywbem_V1.py. (See issue #646)
  • Fix issue with MOF compile in pywbem_mock to account for changes to pywbem.FakedWBEMConnection in pywbem 1.0.0. Because the pywbem mocker stopped displaying compile error messages, this change modifies the code to display the compile errors as exceptions for pywbem 1.0 and use the original display for pre 1.0 pywbem version. With pywbem 1.0.0 it also outputs the compile error message and exception to stderr whereas before the compile error text was routed to stdout. (See issue #637)
  • Fixed an issue where displaying instances in a table format missed properties if the list of instances had different sets of properties. (See issue #650)
  • Change the table output for outputformat html to output the title parameter as an html caption entity instead of as a paragraph. This allows html tables to be subtabled and also presents the table title better. (see issue #721)

Enhancements:

  • Enabled installation using ‘setup.py install’ from unpacked source distribution archive, and added install tests for various installation methods including this one. (see issues #590, #591).
  • Enhance output formats to allow an additional format group TEXT with a single format text. This format outputs the command result as a text string to the console and is use for simple commands like server interop that only output one piece of data. (see issue #594)
  • Extended the command connection test so that it will also test for existence of the DMTF pull operations. It tests for all of the operations and reports success or failure on each operation.
  • Added value-mapped strings to properties in instance table output. For integer-typed (scalar or array) properties that have a ValueMap qualifier, the output of instances in table format now includes the value of the Values qualifier in parenthesis, in addition to the integer value. (See issue #634)
  • The order of properties when displaying instances in a table format is now predictable: First the sorted key properties, then the sorted non-key properties. (Part of fix for issue #650)
  • Modify connections file location functionality so that the default file location is the users home directory. Any other directory and filename can be specified using the general option connections_file which has a corresponding environment variable. (See issue #596)

Cleanup

  • Adds command to test connection for existence of the pull operations (connection test-pull)
  • Refactored display_class_tree() and other functions in _displaytree.py and _cmd_class.py cmd_class_tree function to eliminate boundary conditions, and clarify code.
  • Extended parameter type testing in class PywbemServer so that all constructor parameters are value tested. This specifically fixes issue where we were depending on WBEMConnection to test types of ca_certs and invalid data types could get into the connections file. (See issue #663).
  • Added a function test test module test_misc_errors.py that tests for some common exceptions that apply to many commands (ex. connection error).

5.1.4. pywbemtools 0.6.0

This version contains all fixes up to pywbemtools 0.5.1.

Released: 2020-04-10

Bug fixes:

  • Fix issue with mixed old and new formats on click.echo statement. (See issue #419)
  • Fixed missing Python 3.7 in supported environments shown on Pypi. (See issue #416)
  • Fixed that the ‘class find’ command showed the –namespace option twice (see issue #417)
  • Added PyYAML>=5.1 as a prerequisite package for pywbemtools for installation. So far, it was pulled in indirectly via pywbem.
  • Fixed case sensitive matching of class names in instance modify by picking up the fix in pywbem 0.14.6. (See issue #429).
  • Fixed issue where extra diagnostic information about click was being displayed when the general option –verbose was defined.
  • Fixed issue with x509 parameter of WBEMConnection. (See issue #468)
  • Fixed issue with class find command not returning connection error when cannot connect to server.
  • Added documentation for the –version general option.
  • Increased pywbem minimum version to 0.16.0 to accomodate install issues on Python 3.4, and to pick up other fixes.
  • Test: Accomodated new formatting of error messages in Click 7.1.1, and excluded Click 7.1 due to bug.
  • Test: Fixed dependency to Python development packages on CygWin platform in Appveyor CI.
  • Pygments 2.4.0 and readme-renderer 25.0 have removed support for Python 3.4 and have therefore been pinned to below these versions on Python 3.4.
  • Fix bug where order of commands listed in help output was different for different versions of Python. (See issue #510)
  • Increased minimum version of pluggy package from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0 because it failed during loading of pytest plugins on Python 3.8. (See issue #494)
  • Test: Changed testcases that check the CIM-XML generated with output format ‘xml’ to tolerate the different order of XML attributes that happens on Python 3.8 (See issue #494)
  • Fixed several badges on the README page.
  • Remove use of pywbem internal functions from pywbemcli. This removes use of NocaseDict, _to_unicode, _ensure_unicode, _format from pywbemcli. (See issue #489)
  • Corrected issue with use-pull general option that causes issues with using the ‘either’ option with servers that do not have pull. (See issue #530)
  • Pinned dparse to <0.5.0 on Python 2.7 due to an issue.
  • Test: Fixed incorrect coverage reported at the end of the pytest run, by increasing the minimum version of the coverage package to 4.5.2. (See issue #547)
  • Test: Fixed bug with detection of invalid test validation values, and fixed testcases in turn (See issue #553).
  • Fixed issues in README and README_PYPI file (See issue #555)
  • Improvements and bug fixes in the way the INSTANCENAME parameter of pywbemcli commands is processed. (See issue #528)
  • Increased minimum versions of some packages used for development to address security issues reported by the pyup.io safety tool: twine, bleach, urllib3.

Enhancements:

  • Promoted development status of pywbemtools from Alpha to Beta. (See issue #476)
  • Add capability to reorder commands in the help for each group. The commands in all groups except for the top group (pywbemcli -h) are ordered in the help list by their order in their source file. The display of commands in the top level group is alphabetical except that connection, help, and repl are reordered to the bottom of the list. (See issue #466)
  • Define alternatives for creating INSTANCENAME input parameter since the original form using, WBEMURI is error prone with quote marks. (see issue #390)
  • Add prompt-toolkit auto-suggest. This extends the command completion capability in the repl mode (interactive mode) to make suggestions on command line input based on the history file. Usually auto-suggest completion will be shown as gray text behind the current input. Auto-suggest is not available in command line mode.
  • Add ability to filter results of ‘class enumerate’, ‘class find’, and ‘instance count’ commands for selected class qualifiers. This ability is based on 3 new options for each of the above commands ‘–association’, ‘–indication’, and ‘–experimental’ each of which has a corresponding ‘no-…’. The user can filter to find classes with combinations of these options returning only classes that meet the option criteria. Thus, ‘–association’ returns classes that are associations and ‘–no-association’ returns only classes that are not associations. See issue #447
  • Added support for disabling the spinner that is displayed by default during any ongoing activities, by setting the env var PYWBEM_SPINNER to ‘false’, ‘0’, or the empty string. This is useful when debugging. See issue #465.
  • Modified the response handling on commands that may return nothing with successful response to display a message if the general option –verbose is defined and display nothing if –verbose not set. This includes class/instance delete, instance modify and the commands that display cim objects. (See issue #123)
  • Changed the –ca-certs general option to support the changes as of pywbem version 1.0.0 (new values ‘system’ and ‘certifi’, and default changed from a fixed set of directories to ‘certifi’). The pywbem version is determined at run time and pywbem versions before 1.0.0 are still supported.
  • Test: Improved assertion messages in tests.
  • Output of “pywbemcli server profiles” command is now reliably sorted by version in addition to org and name. (See issue #500)
  • Added support for a new –pdb general option and corresponding PYWBEMCLI_PDB environment variable that causes the pywbemcli command to come up with the pdb debugger before invoking the specified command. This is a debug feature that is expected to be used mainly by the developers of pywbemcli. (See issue #505)
  • Test: Added support for entering the pdb debugger from specific unit testcases by setting the condition parameter of the testcase to the string ‘pdb’. This causes pywbemcli to be invoked with the new –pdb option for that testcase. (See issue #505)
  • Removed usage of the “pbr” package. It was used for automatic versioning of the pywbemtools package, but it had too many drawbacks for that small benefit (See issue #178):
    • Getting the minor version increased in a development version (instead of the patch version) by means of markers in the commit message never worked.
    • The package needed to be tagged twice during the release process.
    • If the last tag was too far in the past of the commit history, the shallow git checkout used by Travis failed and its depth needed to be adjusted. At some point this defeats the purpose of a shallow checkout.
  • Test: Added support for testing on Python 3.8 in Travis, Appveyor and Tox. (See issue #494)
  • Added support for adjusting the width of any help output to the terminal width. The width can be set using the PYWBEMCLI_TERMWIDTH env var. (See issues #518 and #542)
  • Docs: Increased the width of the help text to 120 (See issue #548).
  • Modified the help usage to better reflect the required and optional components of the command line. This includes showing the location in the cmd line for general options where before it was called [COMMAND-OPTIONS] and showing the positioning of both arguments and command arguments. (See issue #446)
  • Increased minimum version of pywbem to 0.17.0 (See issue #571)
  • Add option –full to connection list to create both a brief table output that only has 3 columns (name, server, mock-server) as default but when the option is set all of the columns currently in the report. We did this because it appears that the most frequent use of this command is to just get the name of the various servers defined within an 80 column display. This also now shows empty columns where the original report hid any columns that were empty. (See issue #556)

Cleanup:

  • Test: Enabled Python warning suppression for PendingDeprecationWarning and ResourceWarning (py3 only), and fixed incorrect make variable for that.
  • Test: Removed testfixtures from minimum constraints file, as it is not used.
  • Test: Increased minimum version of pytest from 3.3.0 to 4.3.1 because it fixed an issue that surfaced with pywbem minimum package levels on Python 3.7.
  • Code: refactor code to use only the .format formatter and remove all use of the % formatter.
  • Test: Added missing indirectly referenced prerequisite packages to minimum-constraints.txt, for a defined package level when testing with PACKAGE_LEVEL=minimum.
  • Clean up test mock files by merging mock_simple_model_ext.mof into mock_simple_model.mof
  • Changed some tests to account for behavior difference with pywbem 0.15.0 references and associations with invalid class, role.
  • Changed minimun version of pywbem to 0.15.0 because of test differences that resulted from differences between pywbem 0.14.6 and 0.15.0. The differences are in pywbem_mock where the code was changed to return errors for invalid classnames and roles in association and reference operations where it previously return empty, ignoring the invalid classname.
  • Added tests of all command groups and commands for server connection error.
  • Removed a circumvention for a pywbem bug related to colons in WBEM URIs that was fixed in pywbem 0.13.0. (See issue #131)
  • Added the general option –use-pull to the the PywbemServer() class so that it is persisted in the connection file and to the display of connection information (connection show and connection list). This means that –use-pull can now be set for a particular server permanently.(See issues #529 and #534).
  • Added table formatted output for connection show and removed original free-form output format. (See issue #572)
  • Added documentation on incremental search option to search the command history file in interactive mode. (See issue #595)
  • Added documentation index entries for commands, command groups, etc. (see issue #598)

5.1.5. pywbemtools 0.5.0

Released: 2019-09-29

This is the initial release of pywbemtools.