influxdata / influxdata/influx-cli
Add hint to `influx write` if CLI arg isn't valid LP
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 75
- Forks
- 22
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
`influx write` supports reading data as a positional arg, or from a file. It's easy for users to get mixed up and accidentally pass a filename as a positional arg, leading to error messages like:
```
Error: failed to write data: 400 Bad Request: unable to parse 'latest-observations.lp': missing fields
```
It'd be nice to add some sort of hint about missing the `--file` flag to the error message, if we can figure out a heuristic for detecting this type of error.
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Research direction
Start at the `influx write` command and trace how positional arguments and file input are parsed and how the shown write error is surfaced. Define and test a reliable heuristic for likely filenames passed as data, then confirm the hint appears only for that case and that normal invalid line-protocol errors remain unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100