[SR-Users] Using reserved keywords in cfg variables

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

I pushed a patch to catch this situation and present a more suggestive
error message. It will be backported to stable branches.

Cheers,
Daniel


On 06.06.17 09:34, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ok, I will reproduce myself and see what can be improved there.
>
> Meanwhile, you can update the wiki and add a note about this case so
> others will be aware of the conflict.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
> On 06.06.17 08:44, Paul Claudiu Boriga wrote:
>> Hello Daniel,
>>
>> Kamailio logs 2 error messages in the logfile:
>>
>> Jun  2 15:03:51 test-proxy1-bs kamailio: : <core> [cfg.y:3368]:
>> yyerror_at(): parse error in config file /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg,
>> line 254, column 9-14: syntax error
>> Jun  2 15:03:51 test-proxy1-bs kamailio: : <core> [cfg.y:3368]:
>> yyerror_at(): parse error in config file /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg,
>> line 254, column 9-14:
>>
>> This is the line 254 from the config:
>>
>> my_name.enable = 1 descr "test variable"
>>
>> Regards,
>> Claudiu.
>>
>>
>> On 02.06.2017 15:58, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02.06.17 13:16, Paul Claudiu Boriga wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> We found out that when using cfg variables certain keywords are not
>>>> allowed, and Kamailio logs a generic error:
>>>> <core> [cfg.y:3368]: yyerror_at(): parse error in config file
>>>> /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg, line 256, column 9-14: syntax error
>>>>
>>>> For example we cannot use words like enable/disable for var name or
>>>> group name but we can use disabled or enabled:
>>>>
>>>> group_name.enable = 1 descr "test variable"
>>>>
>>>> Looking into the cfg.lex file, I noticed that these are keywords which
>>>> will be interpreted as values (I don't have too much experience with
>>>> flex/bison so I am not sure I got this right).
>>>>
>>>> We have been using Kamailio 4.4 to test this, but I think it is not
>>>> specific to a version.
>>>>
>>>> Is this behavior documented somewhere? If not, where should it be
>>>> documented? Also can we have a more specific log message in this case?
>>>>
>>> this should be documented in the core cookbook:
>>>
>>>    -
>>> https://www.kamailio.org/wiki/cookbooks/devel/core#custom_global_parameters
>>>
>>>
>>> Was it the only error message printed in this case?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
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