COMMAND EXECUTION RESULTS VERIFICATION

• US 20150254121A1
• Filed: 03/06/2014
• Published: 09/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Anderson, Dale H., Jennas, Paul A. II, Peipelman, Jason L.
• Granted Patent: US 10,169,127 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0706 the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0751 Error or fault detection not based on redundancy power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells

Abstract

A computer program product for command result verification is configured to receive a command and an expected result from a command line interface, execute the command, receive one or more result codes resulting from the execution of the command, determine whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result, and send a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising computer readable code stored on a computer readable medium, the computer program product configured to:

receive a command and an expected result from a command line interface;

execute the command;

receive one or more result codes resulting from the execution of the command;

determine whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result; and

send a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of either successful command execution or errors;

and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises sending a success code to the command line interface.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of successful command execution;

determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises determining whether each result code of the one or more result codes indicates successful execution of the command; and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that each result code of the one or more result codes indicates successful execution of the command; and

sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes indicates an error generated by the execution of the command.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein the error message comprises an error code indicating unexpected error and each result code of the one or more result codes indicating an error generated by the execution of the command.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of errors;

determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises determining whether each result code of the one or more result codes indicates an error generated by the execution of the command; and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that each result code of the one or more result codes indicates an error generated by the execution of the command; and

sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes indicates a successful execution of the command.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the error message comprises an error code indicating unexpected success and each result code of the one or more result codes indicating a successful execution of the command.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein

the expected result comprises a set of expected result codes;

determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises determining whether the one or more result codes matches a subset of the set of expected result codes; and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that the one or more result codes matches a subset of the set of expected result codes; and

sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes does not match any result code of the set of expected result codes.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the error message comprises an error code indicating an unexpected result and each result code of the one or more result codes that does not match any result code of the set of expected result codes.

9. A method comprising:

receiving a command and an expected result from a command line interface;

executing the command;

receiving one or more result codes resulting from the execution of the command;

determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result; and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of either successful command execution or errors;

and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises sending a success code to the command line interface.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of successful command execution;

determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises determining whether each result code of the one or more result codes indicates successful execution of the command; and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that each result code of the one or more result codes indicates successful execution of the command; and

sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes indicates an error generated by the execution of the command.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the error message comprises an error code indicating unexpected error and each result code of the one or more result codes indicating an error generated by the execution of the command.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of errors;

determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises determining whether each result code of the one or more result codes indicates error generated by the execution of the command; and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that each result code of the one or more result codes indicates an error generated by the execution of the command; and

sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes indicates a successful execution of the command.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the error message comprises an error code indicating unexpected success and each result code of the one or more result codes indicating a successful execution of the command.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein

the expected result comprises a set of expected result codes;

determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises determining whether the one or more result codes matches a subset of the set of expected result codes; and

sending a response to the command line interface in response to determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that the one or more result codes matches a subset of the set of expected result codes; and

sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes does not match any result code of a set of expected result codes.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the error message comprises an error code indicating an unexpected result and each result code of the one or more result codes that does not match any result code of the set of expected result codes.

17. An apparatus comprising:

a command module receiving a command and an expected result from a command line interface;

an operations module executing the command;

a result collection module receiving one or more result codes resulting from the execution of the command;

a verification module determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result; and

a response module sending a response to the command line interface in response to the verification module determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of successful command execution;

the verification module that determines whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises the verification module determining whether each result code of the one or more result codes indicates successful execution of the command; and

the response module that sends a response to the command line interface in response to the verification module determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

the response module sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that each result code of the one or more result codes indicates successful execution of the command; and

the response module sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes indicates an error generated by the execution of the command.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein

the expected result comprises an indication of errors;

the verification module that determines whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises the verification module determining whether each result code of the one or more result codes indicates error generated by the execution of the command; and

the response module that sends a response to the command line interface in response to the verification module determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

the response module sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that each result code of the one or more result codes indicates an error generated by the execution of the command; and

the response module sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes indicates a successful execution of the command.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein

the expected result comprises a set of expected result codes;

the verification module determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises the verification module determining whether the one or more result codes matches a subset of the set of expected result codes; and

the response module sending a response to the command line interface in response to the verification module determining whether the one or more result codes satisfy the expected result comprises;

the response module sending a success code to the command line interface in response to determining that the one or more result codes matches a subset of the set of expected result codes; and

the response module sending an error message to the command line interface in response to determining that a result code of the one or more result codes does not match any result code of a set of expected result codes.