openQA Project (public)

Motivation¶

Currently we allow quotes for names containing "". From perl perspective a name containing '' is still a simple identifier and can be used without quotes for hashkey.

From https://perldoc.perl.org/perldata.html :

The => operator is mostly just a more visually distinctive synonym for a comma, but it also arranges
for its left-hand operand to be interpreted as a string if it's a bareword that would be a legal simple
identifier.

So we will end up with a regex like this:

/^[a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z_]*$/

Changing it, produce perlcritic violations, so a cleanup is needed as well.

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: hash keys containing _ are accepted without surrounding quotes
• AC2: Adopted tidy rules have been applied to os-autoinst and downstream os-autoinst-distri-opensuse

Suggestions¶

• Change existing tidy checks within os-autoinst
• Ensure os-autoinst code adheres to the new rules
• Apply the same for os-autoinst-distri-opensuse