feat: add ego.server.report.fqdn boolean setting

If true, the fully-qualified domain name is reported for the
rest payload identifying the server. If false (the default)
then only the "shortname" is returned.

defs/config.go

@@ -197,6 +197,10 @@ const (
 	// The prefix for all server configuration keys.
 	ServerKeyPrefix = PrivilegedKeyPrefix + "server."
 
+	// If true, the REST payload will report the fully-qualified domain name for
+	// the server. Otherwise, the "shortname" is used, which is the default case.
+	ServerReportFQDNSetting = ServerKeyPrefix + "report.fqdn"
+
 	// The default user if no userdatabase has been initialized yet. This is a
 	// string of the form "user:password", which is defined as the root user.
 	DefaultCredentialSetting = ServerKeyPrefix + "default.credential"
@@ -368,6 +372,7 @@ var ValidSettings map[string]bool = map[string]bool{
 	PrecisionErrorSetting:           true,
 	UnusedVarsSetting:               true,
 	UnusedVarLoggingSetting:         true,
+	ServerReportFQDNSetting:         true,
 }
 
 // RestrictedSettings is a list of settings that cannot be read using the

runtime/profile/initialization.go

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ func InitProfileDefaults() error {
 		defs.StaticTypesSetting:            defs.Dynamic,
 		defs.UnusedVarsSetting:             defs.True,
 		defs.UnusedVarLoggingSetting:       defs.False,
+		defs.ServerReportFQDNSetting:       defs.False,
 		defs.OutputFormatSetting:           ui.TextFormat,
 		defs.ExtensionsEnabledSetting:      defs.False,
 		defs.UseReadline:                   defs.True,

tools/buildver.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5-1185
+1.5-1186

util/strings.go

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
+	"github.com/tucats/ego/app-cli/settings"
 	"github.com/tucats/ego/data"
+	"github.com/tucats/ego/defs"
 )
 
 // Hostname gets a short form of the host namme (i.e. the first part of an FQDN).
@@ -15,15 +17,13 @@ func Hostname() string {
 	if hostName, err := os.Hostname(); err == nil {
 		// If this is a multipart name, use only the first part.
 		// If this is not a multipart name, return the entire name.
-		// Note: This assumes that the FQDN will not contain multiple
+		// Note: This assumes that the FQDN will contain multiple
 		// dots, which is a common scenario.
-		if strings.Count(hostName, ".") > 1 {
-			parts := strings.SplitN(hostName, ".", 2)
-
-			return parts[0]
-		} else {
-			return hostName
+		if !settings.GetBool(defs.ServerReportFQDNSetting) {
+			hostName = strings.SplitN(hostName, ".", 2)[0]
 		}
+
+		return hostName
 	} else {
 		return "<unknown hostname>"
 	}