Closed Tormen closed 11 months ago
Hey @Tormen ,
The vpnutil
command line tool already supports a list
parameter. When running the command vpnutil list
, you will see an output like:
VPN1 Connected
VPN2 Disconnected
VPN3 Disconnected
where VPN1
, VPN2
and VPN3
are the names of the VPNs.
I assume that you would prefer to get a JSON output format like:
{
"VPN1": {
"status": "Connected"
},
"VPN2": {
"status": "Disconnected"
},
"VPN3": {
"status": "Disconnected"
}
}
Would this JSON work for you? Is there anything missing in this output that you would like to see?
Hi @Timac ,
Thank you!
In this case I would suggest the following to avoid similar confusion for others: Could you please change the output when calling "vpnutil" to show that there is such a list parameter ?
As for me the "Usage" did NOT talk about "list" I (had to assume) that there is no list
parameter :D
This is what I see when executing vpnutil
without parameters (latest stable precompiled version, downloaded today from this GitHub):
Usage: vpnutil [start|stop] [VPN name]
Examples:
To start the VPN called 'MyVPN':
vpnutil start MyVPN
To stop the VPN called 'MyVPN':
vpnutil stop MyVPN
To list all available VPNs and their state:
vpnutil list
To get the status of the VPN called 'MyVPN':
vpnutil status MyVPN
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Hi @Timac ,
I had another look at the current output of the list
command and:
The output of the list
command could be improved
by using a "TAB" character, instead of "SPACE"
to separate the NAME of the VPN and the status,
as the VPN NAME /can/ also contain spaces.
Tormen
@Tormen Thanks again for the great suggestions. I implemented 2 changes:
list
parametervpnutil list
now outputs a json format. This issue was also tracked by https://github.com/Timac/VPNStatus/issues/12 . If you run vpnutil list
, you should now see a json like this:{
"VPNs" : [
{
"name" : "VPN1",
"status" : "Connected"
},
{
"name" : "VPN2",
"status" : "Disconnected"
},
{
"name" : "VPN3",
"status" : "Disconnected"
}
]
}
Ability to list all VPNs and their status: Minimum: Name of VPN (as needed for
start
andstop
command, as well as status of VPN (I imagine the possibilities would be: connected, disconnected, connecting, ...).Make this feature accessible via a 3rd command parameter (instead of start/stop): Something like
list
.Output format: I don't really mind. The possibilities I see:
This would really be useful. Especially as the MacOS built-in tools don't seem to be able :/
Please let me know what would be needed in terms of financial sponsoring for this item. Thanks a lot in advance!