Python 3 has changed the behavior of subparsers so that they are no
longer mandatory by default. As a result, executing just "wa" under
Python 3 results in a random error, rather than a help message.
Fix this by making the subparsers mandatory.
Add a decorator to indicate that a callback runs entirely host-side and
does not rely on a connection to the target. This means it will be
invoked even if the target was detected to be unresponsive.
- Add "hard" parameter to TargetManager's reboot().
- Pass in context to TargetManager's reboot() and
verify_target_responsive() -- this is needed for signal dispatch.
- Call self.reboot() instead of self.target.reboot() when attempting a
reset for unresponsive targets inside TargetManager, in order to
ensure that appropriate signals are dispatched.
In a previous commit we filtered parameters so that '-h' is never passed
to 'parse_known_commands' to ensure our own custom help message is displayed,
now also filter for '--help' for the same reason.
Previously incorrect method calls were used to try and convert 'max' and
'min' into their corresponding frequencies, now call the correct methods
and refactor the conversion into a separate method.
Modify execution so that output processors' process_job_output() (but
not export_job_output()) is wrapped by the JOB_OUTPUT_PROCESSED signals.
This makes sense conceptually, and is more useful in practice, as there
are already WORKLOAD_RESULT_EXTRACTION and WORKLOAD_OUTPUT_UPDATE
signals sent by the job, if it's desirable to run before output
processors, but after the job results have been collected.
As part of resolving a resource, record its MD5 hash in the output
metadata. In order to enable this, resource resolution is now done via
the context, rather than directly via the ResourceResolver (in order not
to introduce a context dependency in the Gui object, context now
emulates the resolver interface).
Metadata is a key-value mapping for arbitrary data, similar to
classifiers. Unlike classifiers, metadata does not directly relate to
the results of the execution, but to the execution itself, and typically
would not be processed by Output Processors in the same way as
classifiers. Metadata can also be a lot more free-form in it's value
structure; while classifier values are simple scalars, metadata values
can be arbitrary POD structures.
If the device is to perform an initial reboot, allow up to `max_retries`
from the run configuration for the reboot to succeed and add logging to
inform the user.
Treat the optional reboot of the device as part of the job itself so that
if the reboot fails it will be retried in accordance to the job
configuration.
Instead of starting and stopping the target from inside the Context,
move the calls to the Runner. This allows for the any initilizaton
errors to be dealt with as part of the job and retried as
appropriate.
- expose pluginloader's resolve_alias in plugin_cache (it's supposed
to be a transparent proxy for pluginloader).
- resolve aliases inside _set_plugin_defaults() to make sure the
correct defaults are used when creating job specs.
