Hi!

I'm doing my first Nagios plugin based on Nagios::Plugins and I noticed that it automatically supports --extra-opts.

So I did my first attempt with this feature as it seem to well fit my needs.

unfortunately I observed 2 strange behaviours:

1. I had an argument "msg|message" and this led to some weird parsing of the extra opts. My config file was like this:

   [experiment]
   percent=1
   message=%d OK
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   The result was percent was undefined and msg was set to "--percent".

   When I changed the argument to "message|msg", it worked. Now percent is set to 1 and message is set to '"%d OK"'.

   And this leads to my second strange behaviour:

2. Every value, which contains spaces, is automatically quoted. So instead of having just

   %d OK
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   I get

   "%d OK"
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   . and I think this is a bug.

Update

Some code to play with:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Nagios::Plugin;
use Data::Dumper;
my $n=Nagios::Plugin->new(version=>1,usage=>"");
$n->add_arg("percent","",undef,0);
$n->add_arg("msg|message=s","",undef,0);
$n->getopts();
print Dumper $n->opts
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Output is (shortened)

$VAR1 = bless( { :
                 :
                 'msg' => '--percent',
                 'verbose' => 0,
                 'usage' => undef,
                 'percent' => undef,
                 :
               }, 'Nagios::Plugin::Getopt' );
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Which is wrong. If you change "msg|message=s" to "message|msg=s" the output will be almost correct:

$VAR1 = bless( { :
                 :
                 'percent' => 1,
                 'version' => undef,
                 'message' => '"%d OK"',
               }, 'Nagios::Plugin::Getopt' );
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More Updates

Quoting isn't done properly, I think. When I use this configuration file:

[experiment]
percent=1
message="%d" OK
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I get a very unusual quoted string: ""%d" OK"