[Condor-devel] %s

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Following up from the confusing discussion in the meeting today:

The %s format specifier in condor_q and condor_status sometimes 
evaluates its argument and sometimes does an attribute lookup and 
displays the unparsed expression.  My assertion that the behavior had 
recently changed is false.  I just wasn't expecting it to ever evaluate 
the expression.

The behavior is what Todd suggested it should be: if the expression can 
be evaluated to a string, the string is printed; otherwise, if it is an 
attribute reference, the unparsed value of the attribute is printed.

The new %v attribute, on the other hand, always evaluates.  One can get 
the unparsed value by using the unparse() classad function.

So the real problem I was chasing is that -xml (and -long) provides no 
way to evaluate an attribute or an arbitrary expression.

--Dan