From c2355864cf47cafe4bfebe91dbb929f725aea8b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miod Vallat <miod.vallat@powerdns.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 08:20:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Suggest create-zone after view-add-zone of a nonexisting
 zone.

---
 pdns/pdnsutil.cc                                | 9 ++++++++-
 regression-tests/tests/views-management/command | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pdns/pdnsutil.cc b/pdns/pdnsutil.cc
index 59bd7c3718..54a35f32bf 100644
--- a/pdns/pdnsutil.cc
+++ b/pdns/pdnsutil.cc
@@ -4624,7 +4624,14 @@ static int viewAddZone(vector<string>& cmds, const std::string_view synopsis)
   if (!B.viewAddZone(view, zone)) {
     cerr<<"Operation failed."<<endl;
     return 1;
- }
+  }
+  if (!g_quiet) {
+    DomainInfo info;
+    if (!B.getDomainInfo(zone, info)) {
+      cout << "Zone '" << zone << "' does not exist yet."<< endl;
+      cout << "Consider creating it with 'pdnsutil create-zone " << zone << "'" << endl;
+    }
+  }
   return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/regression-tests/tests/views-management/command b/regression-tests/tests/views-management/command
index 419547383f..2b1ef149e9 100755
--- a/regression-tests/tests/views-management/command
+++ b/regression-tests/tests/views-management/command
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 set -o pipefail
 
 pdnsutil_wrapper() {
-$PDNSUTIL --config-dir=. --config-name=$backend $* 2>&1 | (egrep -v 'destructor' || true)
+$PDNSUTIL -q --config-dir=. --config-name=$backend $* 2>&1 | (egrep -v 'destructor' || true)
 }
 
 set -e # to make this first call exit us early for non-variant capable backends.
-- 
2.47.2