Print all Publish Containers in crab status command

[novicecpp]

crab status command in latest version only print Publish Container that have the same name as tm_output_dataset.

Now that we have multiple Publish Containers, we need to display all of them.
The info to display is already there in taskdb tm_multipub_rule.

[novicecpp]

My proposal is print them when supply the --long arg.

The new version of crab status without --long (notice the Publish container's rule is gone):

with --long, it will print Publish Container's name and its rule after Publication section:

@belforte What do you think?

[belforte]

I'd rather add a new option than expect/ask users to use --long with task of >100 jobs.
But.. are we talking about one line for each output file ? I.e. mostly one at at most a handful ? Why not adding them all of the times ?
I agree that the crab status output is getting long. But suggest to keep looking for ideas.
Maybe add an option to list rules ? In the end rules on Publish container are not very useful, esp. if they have no expiration date. And one can simply to rucio rule-info <container>. Maybe one line about this ?

Anyhow, I would really really stay out of status --long

[novicecpp]

Maybe add an option to list rules ? In the end rules on Publish container are not very useful, esp. if they have no expiration date. And one can simply to rucio rule-info . Maybe one line about this ?

I don't think so.
I always use the rule ID as the starting point when interact with the Rucio system, mainly because it has GUI that easy to navigate around. If it not enough, then I will go to the CLI like list-file-replicas or list-account-usage command.
It also tell the users which rule is created and managed by CRAB.

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About the --long I kinda agree with you. I personally do not mind having the longer output, and as the reason above, I still want to show both the container name and rule ID.

Maybe a new arg like --show-containers is the best option where we can keep status output short, trade-off with a little extra effort required from users to provide additional arg. We can also add more information to the output like rule expiration time or lock status summary.