The "elog" command has no "append" feature. You can either create a new entry, or you can overwrite an old entry. Therefore this is not a bug but the intended bahaviour.
I admit that the documentation is misleading, since overwriting an existing entry is called "editing":
[-e <id>] Edit existing message
I interprete your posts that you would like to have two new features for the "elog" command:
- to append text to the body of an existing entry
- to add additional attachments to an existing entry
Without a specific application in mind I would like to add a request (for consistency):
- to modify a specific attribute of an existing entry.
Cheers, Andreas
| Edmund Hertle wrote: |
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Hey,
I think this is a "problem" of the elog client, since it simply replaces the data. In most cases this is what you want, but since I wanted to have the option to append to the acutal message I built a function to first read-back the entry and add to the message instead of replacing it.
I just played around a bit and found that the attachments will be even disconnected, if you do not specify the -f parameter but just edit a different part of this entry.
A work-around for this is tricky. I tried to write to the "Attachment" attribute directly (-a "Attachment=Filename'), since then you coud read back the data first and manually add the filenames again. But this does not work.
Since the attachments are not actually removed, the only option I see is to modify the logbook file entry on the server by manually re-adding the filenames to the "Attachment: " line.
| Joseph McKenna wrote: |
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Using the elog client to upload atachments, I can successfully send attachments to an existing elog, however the existing attachments are lost.
I have tested using the elog client version 3.1.1 and elog client version 2.9.2 sending to elogd 2.9.0
elog -h localhost -p 8080 -l test -f file1.png -f file2.png -e 249 -v -x
This works great, the text contained in the elog post is retained, however all attachments are lost and replaced with those sent by this command.
Can anyone provide some tips? I am not sure if its a problem with the client or server.
Thank you in advance!
Joseph
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