Bug #295
closederror reporting on malformed vars used in rules
Description
This happened to me when I started using Suri as well. In my case I had messed up a variable definition (my HOME_NET variable was badly formed, missing a trailing ']' on the address list). Although no failure occurred parsing the variable configuration, the rule parser encountered it when loading the rules and saw the rules involving HOME_NET to be malformed. Double check your configuration.
Dev team, update needed to abort on failure when unable to parse variables properly?
@Gerardo: can you check and fix both 1.0.4 and the git master?
Updated by Brant Wells almost 13 years ago
This also occurs when not wrapping vars with the double quotes in lines such as:
EXTERNAL_NET: !$HOME_NET
The above line allows Suri to run, but causes all of the errors.
The line below works correctly in the config --
EXTERNAL_NET: "!$HOME_NET"
The default config of EXTERNAL_NET: any works properly without any errors.
Updated by Victor Julien over 12 years ago
- Assignee changed from Gerado Iglesias Galvan to Peter Manev
- Target version set to 1.1rc1
Peter, can you figure out in what cases we fail to properly parse the vars in our git master?
Updated by Victor Julien over 12 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Closed
This issue appears to be a YAML limitation. YAML uses a unquoted exclamation mark to indicate a user defined data type: "Many implementations of YAML can support user defined data types. This is a good way to serialize an object. Local data types are not universal data types but are defined in the application using the YAML parser library. Local data types use a single exclamation mark ( ! )." (from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML).
So the solution is to use quotes.
I've added some warnings for when one or more brackets are missing. Will be merged soon.