introduces new command-line options `--dp`, `--dump-pretty` to dump the configuration using more human readable representation;

allow dump of configuration, also if log-file is not available (warning only)

fail2ban/client/configurator.py

@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ class Configurator:
 		self.__fail2ban.getOptions(updateMainOpt)
 		return self.__jails.getOptions(jail, ignoreWrong=ignoreWrong)
 		
-	def convertToProtocol(self):
+	def convertToProtocol(self, allow_no_files=False):
 		self.__streams["general"] = self.__fail2ban.convert()
-		self.__streams["jails"] = self.__jails.convert()
+		self.__streams["jails"] = self.__jails.convert(allow_no_files=allow_no_files)
 	
 	def getConfigStream(self):
 		cmds = list()

fail2ban/client/fail2bancmdline.py

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 		output("    --logtarget <FILE>|STDOUT|STDERR|SYSLOG")
 		output("    --syslogsocket auto|<FILE>")
 		output("    -d                      dump configuration. For debugging")
+		output("    --dp, --dump-pretty     dump the configuration using more human readable representation")
 		output("    -t, --test              test configuration (can be also specified with start parameters)")
 		output("    -i                      interactive mode")
 		output("    -v                      increase verbosity")
@@ -137,8 +138,8 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 				self._conf["pidfile"] = opt[1]
 			elif o.startswith("--log") or o.startswith("--sys"):
 				self._conf[ o[2:] ] = opt[1]
-			elif o == "-d":
+			elif o in ["-d", "--dp", "--dump-pretty"]:
-				self._conf["dump"] = True
+				self._conf["dump"] = True if o == "-d" else 2
 			elif o == "-t" or o == "--test":
 				self.cleanConfOnly = True
 				self._conf["test"] = True
@@ -184,7 +185,8 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 			# Reads the command line options.
 			try:
 				cmdOpts = 'hc:s:p:xfbdtviqV'
-				cmdLongOpts = ['loglevel=', 'logtarget=', 'syslogsocket=', 'test', 'async', 'timeout=', 'str2sec=', 'help', 'version']
+				cmdLongOpts = ['loglevel=', 'logtarget=', 'syslogsocket=', 'test', 'async',
+					'timeout=', 'str2sec=', 'help', 'version', 'dp', '--dump-pretty']
 				optList, self._args = getopt.getopt(self._argv[1:], cmdOpts, cmdLongOpts)
 			except getopt.GetoptError:
 				self.dispUsage()
@@ -240,7 +242,10 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 				if readcfg:
 					ret, stream = self.readConfig()
 					readcfg = False
-				self.dumpConfig(stream)
+				if stream is not None:
+					self.dumpConfig(stream, self._conf["dump"] == 2)
+				else: # pragma: no cover
+					output("ERROR: The configuration stream failed because of the invalid syntax.")
 				if not self._conf.get("test", False):
 					return ret
 
@@ -275,7 +280,8 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 			self.configurator.readAll()
 			ret = self.configurator.getOptions(jail, self._conf, 
 				ignoreWrong=not self.cleanConfOnly)
-			self.configurator.convertToProtocol()
+			self.configurator.convertToProtocol(
+				allow_no_files=self._conf.get("dump", False))
 			stream = self.configurator.getConfigStream()
 		except Exception as e:
 			logSys.error("Failed during configuration: %s" % e)
@@ -283,9 +289,15 @@ class Fail2banCmdLine():
 		return ret, stream
 
 	@staticmethod
-	def dumpConfig(cmd):
+	def dumpConfig(cmd, pretty=False):
+		if pretty:
+			from pprint import pformat
+			def _output(s):
+				output(pformat(s, width=1000, indent=2))
+		else:
+			_output = output
 		for c in cmd:
-			output(c)
+			_output(c)
 		return True
 
 	#

fail2ban/client/jailreader.py

@@ -235,9 +235,12 @@ class JailReader(ConfigReader):
 						found_files += 1
 						stream.append(
 							["set", self.__name, "addlogpath", p, tail])
-				if not (found_files or allow_no_files):
+				if not found_files:
-					raise ValueError(
+					msg = "Have not found any log file for %s jail" % self.__name
-						"Have not found any log file for %s jail" % self.__name)
+					if not allow_no_files:
+						raise ValueError(msg)
+					logSys.warning(msg)
+					
 			elif opt == "logencoding":
 				stream.append(["set", self.__name, "logencoding", value])
 			elif opt == "backend":

fail2ban/tests/fail2banclienttestcase.py

@@ -426,7 +426,11 @@ class Fail2banClientTest(Fail2banClientServerBase):
 		startparams = _start_params(tmp, True)
 		self.execSuccess(startparams, "-vvd")
 		self.assertLogged("Loading files")
-		self.assertLogged("logtarget")
+		self.assertLogged("['set', 'logtarget',")
+		self.pruneLog()
+		# pretty dump:
+		self.execSuccess(startparams, "--dp")
+		self.assertLogged("['set', 'logtarget',")
 		
 	@with_tmpdir
 	@with_kill_srv