[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 397 raise exception on empty mod

[Martin Nagy]

On 03/05/2010 07:47 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Raise an error if no modifications were performed in an update.
>
> This will alert the user that nothing was done and is handy when used
> with --attr=''. This can be used to delete a non-required attribute but
> can be set to any valid attribute, present or not. We should alert the
> user if they attempt to delete a non-existant value.
>
> rob

Few questions:
How will the user see this error? I'm not sure this should be presented 
as an error, but more like a notification maybe. Also, I'm not 100% sure 
how we handle exceptions like this on the server side, but I'm guessing 
that this will not show up in the server logs as an exception?

Martin