[Xymon] 4.3.20 "description" tag in rss is now empty

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 2:55 pm, John Thurston wrote:
> On 5/20/2015 1:24 PM, John Thurston wrote:
>> Under 4.3.17, my rss files contained things like:
>>>   <item>
>>>     <title>xymonj.state.ak.us (xymond)</title>
>>>
>>> <link>http://xymon.state.ak.us/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=xymonj.state.ak.us&SERVICE=xymond</link>
>>>
>>> <description>yellow</description>
>>
>> Under 4.3.20, my rss files contain similar lines _except_ the last:
>>> <description></description>
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out why. Had I customized my rss feed somehow on
>> 4.3.17 and the customization was lost?
>
> I think this may be related to a change in loaddata.c where a
> xymondboard command used to request the field "line1" and now does not.
> I base this on the footprints that one of the "description" tags used to
> be:
> <description>yellow SSL Certificate Expiration:</description>
> and the first line reported by my ext script on that client was:
> "yellow SSL Certificate Expiration:"
>
> I see a reference to this in http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7647/
> "don't pull line1 in xymondboard, as it's not currently used"
> how was it determined that it wasn't used?
>


Sadly, it looks like I overlooked this.

I'd done a textual analysis within xymongen, but missed the read from
'shorttext' in the RSS generator. It is indeed used here (though not on
the main pages).

I'll be pushing a 4.3.21 shortly which includes this as a reversion.


Regards,

-jc