Feature request: file changed on disk warning

The bigger problem is now that the iRule Editor can be toggled to not automatically flush changes to disk, one user could make a change to the running config and the config file on disk will not be updated.

 

 

We have a voluntary locking mechanism in the iControl API and it might be a good idea to include support in the iRule editor. I'll take a look at that next week. Thanks for the feedback and I'll let you know how it goes. This wouldn't extend across the GUI or CLI but it would support multiple iRule Editor users.

 

 

Another idea could be to query the iRule before saving it to see if it's changed since the last time requested. I keep a copy of the original iRule in the Editor's buffer to support the "Reset" right click option. This could be compared against a newly created iRule.

 

 

BTW, I really appreciate this kind of feedback as it gives me ideas how the Editor is used in the wild and ideas for adding new features. Please pass along anything else you would like enhanced or changed in it and I'll see what I can come up with.

 

 

-Joe