[SR-Users] My wish

[Alex Balashov]

On 04/12/2010 03:50 AM, marius zbihlei wrote:
> 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.

That would certainly solve the problem!

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