[SR-Users] My wish

[marius zbihlei]

Alex Balashov wrote:
> Hi Marius,
>
> On 04/10/2010 02:19 AM, Marius Zbihlei wrote:
>
>> Hello Alex,
>>
>>  > Thus, it is not possible
>>  > in advance to know which modules will be loaded, nor possible to
>>  > iterate through some list and combine them into a string, so I 
>> cannot do:
>>  >
>>  > modparam("mod1|mod2|mod3", "db_url", ...)
>>
>> Regarding the modparam statement, I think you can. Unfortunately, I
>> can't test it a.t.m., but as far as I remember I think the modparam
>> statement succeeds even if only one of the modules listed in the module
>> section is configured correctly. For example you can have something like
>>
>> modparam("carrierroute|xyz", "db_url", ....)
>>
>> and work, even if xyz module doesn't exist (yet).
>
> I agree, this is possible, but I find it an inelegant solution;  it 
> still requires me to anticipate every conceivable module that could be 
> loaded elsewhere in the configuration, and this is not as easy as it 
> sounds given its highly flexible, indeterminate nature.  It's also 
> just not pretty.

Hello Alex,

How about a syntax like

modparam("*", "db_url", ...) ?

meaning that it matches all modules that have a db_url param. Maybe this 
will also benefit something like module specific log level(when will be 
implemented) and other common parameters.

Cheers
Marius