Bug in veyon-ctl networkobjects import

[zeltron80]

Hi,

I'm using Veyon 4.1.4 from .deb package downloaded on your site, and ubuntu 18.04.
I try to prepare configurations for my classrooms.
I manually declared some rooms/computers in veyon-configurator, to make some tests.
I use the following command to export my conf :

veyon-ctl networkobjects export computers-with-rooms.csv format "%type%;%room%;%name%;%host%;%mac%"

Just after this command, I clear the conf :

veyon-ctl networkobjects clear

Then I try to import back, with exactly the same command I used to export, just replacing "export" with "import" :

veyon-ctl networkobjects import computers-with-rooms.csv format "%type%;%room%;%name%;%host%;%mac%"

This command fails with message :

[ERROR] Erreur pendant l'analyse de la ligne 1.
[ERREUR]

(Error during line 1 analysis)

I had to remove the "type" column in every line of the csv file and the %type% parameter in the command to make it work.
As the type parameters in the csv file were in french ("Salle", "Ordinateur"), I also tried to replace them with "Room" and "Computer" (and reusing the %type% parameter in the command), but it didn't make it work better.

It seems this is a bug, then (sorry).
I noticed, though, that if I don't use the %type% parameter, and I only keep in the file my computers, with the %room% parameter, there is no need to use this %type% parameter : you just have to edit the .csv file after export, and remove every line concerning a room. Rooms are automatically created on import, according to the room parameter in computer's lines.

Regards
E.T.

[tobydox]

This is indeed an insufficiency in the import command. I just added the missing support for importing an optional object type column. It will be part of Veyon 4.2 and maybe we'll also backport it to future 4.1 releases.