Line numbers given for config errors are wrong/confusing

[991jo]

I am running rtrtr v0.2.2 on Debian 11.

I have a small config file with an "invalid IP address" for the http-listen directive, that uses a domain instead of an address:

log_level = "debug"
log_target = "stderr"
log_facility = "daemon"
log_file = "/var/log/rtrtr.log"

http-listen = ["localhost:8080"]

# JSON UNIT

[units.rpki-client]
type = "json"
uri = "file:///var/lib/rpki-client/json"
refresh = 60

# RTR TARGET

[targets.default]
type = "rtr"
listen = [ "127.0.0.1:9001"]
unit = "rpki-client"

When I execute it, rtrtr says:

root@rpki-1:~# rtrtr -v --config minimal.conf
/root/minimal.conf: invalid IP address syntax at line 17 column 1

However line 17 is not the http-listen directive, it is the targets.default block which leads a user to believe that the IP address in the listen directive in the target is invalid. I would have expected something like invalid IP address syntax at line 6 where the actual wrong directive is.

[partim]

Thank you for the report and apologies for the embarrassingly late response.

Unfortunately, these line numbers are generated in an underlying library and not easily fixable. I switched to a newer version but now it just says “line 1 column 1” all the time.

So we will need to redo the configuration parsing as part of the next release.