snapshot: Fix snapshot info's xml output

    Backport of http://review.gluster.org/#/c/11834/

Display description field with (null) if
no description is present for the snapshot, instead
of removing the field altogether

Change-Id: I965b08cd6e54eea56c32e2712fab7daa8a663f11
BUG: 1173437
Signed-off-by: Avra Sengupta <asengupt@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/11919
Reviewed-by: mohammed rafi  kc <rkavunga@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Raghavendra Bhat <raghavendra@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Raghavendra Bhat <raghavendra@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 45 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cli/src/cli-xml-output.c b/cli/src/cli-xml-output.c
index 2ff924158ce..4c43c0c9bdf 100644
--- a/cli/src/cli-xml-output.c
+++ b/cli/src/cli-xml-output.c
@@ -4603,8 +4603,12 @@ cli_xml_snapshot_info_per_snap (xmlTextWriterPtr writer, xmlDocPtr doc,
                 ret = xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement (writer,
                                                 (xmlChar *) "description",
                                                 "%s", buffer);
-                XML_RET_CHECK_AND_GOTO (ret, out);
+        } else {
+                ret = xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement (writer,
+                                                (xmlChar *) "description",
+                                                "%s", "");
         }
+        XML_RET_CHECK_AND_GOTO (ret, out);
 
         snprintf (key_buffer, sizeof (key_buffer), "%s.snap-time", keyprefix);
 
diff --git a/tests/bugs/snapshot/bug-1250387.t b/tests/bugs/snapshot/bug-1250387.t
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..9e32a9c3c95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/bugs/snapshot/bug-1250387.t
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+. $(dirname $0)/../../include.rc
+. $(dirname $0)/../../volume.rc
+. $(dirname $0)/../../snapshot.rc
+
+cleanup;
+
+TEST init_n_bricks 1;
+TEST setup_lvm 1;
+
+TEST glusterd;
+
+TEST pidof glusterd;
+
+TEST $CLI volume create $V0 $H0:$L1;
+
+TEST $CLI volume start $V0;
+
+TEST glusterfs --volfile-server=$H0 --volfile-id=$V0 $M0;
+
+TEST $CLI snapshot create snap1 $V0;
+
+EXPECT "description" get-cmd-field-xml "snapshot info snap1" "description"
+
+cleanup  ;
diff --git a/tests/snapshot.rc b/tests/snapshot.rc
index 175344ef5f7..e893748eb9e 100755
--- a/tests/snapshot.rc
+++ b/tests/snapshot.rc
@@ -401,6 +401,20 @@ function uss_count_snap_displayed() {
         ls $path/.snaps | wc -l
 }
 
+#return specific fields of xml output
+function get-cmd-field-xml()
+{
+        local cli=$CLI_1;
+        if [ "$cli" = "" ]; then
+            cli=$CLI
+        fi
+
+        COMMAND=$1
+        PATTERN=$2
+
+        $cli $COMMAND --xml | xmllint --format - | grep $PATTERN
+}
+
 case $OSTYPE in
 NetBSD)
         echo "Skip test on LVM which is not available on NetBSD" >&2