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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2014-07-21 17:08:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2014-07-22 16:15:49 -0700 |
| commit | 639b6d9c909300f572fe9c0d6b89ff4067b13121 (patch) | |
| tree | 363fa0a7211917ac485562b16e159e6f13d6dded /ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in | |
| parent | a75770889482d8b86c0c09d255f46c73169014b0 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-639b6d9c909300f572fe9c0d6b89ff4067b13121.tar.gz | |
ovsdb-server: Document RFC 7047 extensions to ovsdb <error>s.
Reported-by: Madhu Venugopal <vmadhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in b/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in index 15382b486..ec408a68e 100644 --- a/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in +++ b/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in @@ -194,6 +194,22 @@ RFC 4627 says that names within a JSON object should be unique. The Open vSwitch JSON parser discards all but the last value for a name that is specified more than once. . +.IP +The definition of <error> allows for implementation extensions. +Currently \fBovsdb\-server\fR uses the following additional "error" +strings which might change in later releases): +. +.RS +.IP "\fBsyntax error\fR or \fBunknown column\fR" +The request could not be parsed as an OVSDB request. An additional +"syntax" member, whose value is a string that contains JSON, may +narrow down the particular syntax that could not be parsed. +.IP "\fBinternal error\fR" +The request triggered a bug in \fBovsdb\-server\fR. +.IP "\fBovsdb error\fR" +A map or set contains a duplicate key. +.RE +. .IP "3.2. Schema Format" RFC 7047 requires the "version" field in <database-schema>. Current versions of \fBovsdb\-server\fR allow it to be omitted (future |