From: Stephen Soltesz <soltesz@cs.princeton.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:01:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: allow user to delete some attributes, such as 'gid' which break calls to
X-Git-Tag: sfa-0.9-1~113
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34a85fa3d9a21c639208f0cbb0ea74eaf6535118;p=sfa.git

allow user to delete some attributes, such as 'gid' which break calls to
'sfi.py add' if the old gid is still present.
---

diff --git a/sfa/client/setRecord.py b/sfa/client/setRecord.py
index 0d7dd16d..c3379be5 100755
--- a/sfa/client/setRecord.py
+++ b/sfa/client/setRecord.py
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ def editDict(args, recordDict, options):
             replaceDict({vect.split("=")[0]: returnVal(vect.split("=")[1])},
                          recordDict, options) 
         else:
-            raise TypeError, "Argument error: Records are updated with \n" \
+			if vect in recordDict:
+				del recordDict[vect]
+			else:
+            	raise TypeError, "Argument error: Records are updated with \n" \
                             "key=val1,val2,valN or\n" \
                             "key+=val1,val2,valN \n%s Unknown key/val" % vect