Hello!
We could do it as length+text kinda easily but for historical reasons it
isn't there. Please note that this kind of interface has become
impossible to maintain. We won't extend this interface to include
length, mostly bc. it would just be another hack in an already
insufficient and slow protocol.
You may expect not only a completely new protocol based on CBOR and YANG
to communicate with BIRD, but also a quite fast discontinuation of the
current interface.
I hope this information somehow helps you in your long-term planning.
Maria
On 2023-10-18 23:26, Alexander Zubkov via Bird-users wrote:
Hi,
You can find some information about it here:
https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=prog-2.html#ss2.10
<https://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=prog-2.html#ss2.10>
I think (IMHO) the reason why it is not implemented as "length+text"
is because for that you need to prepare the whole response in some
buffer first to calculate its size. In the current approach you can
put the things out without the intermediate buffer.
Regards,
Alexander
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:17 PM LIU Chris via Bird-users
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Classified as: {OPEN}
I don’t think so.
In fact, nothing wrong, just wondering the reason.
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LIU,
Can the use case be covered by SNMPd agentx support?
https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/blob/master/doc/roadmap.md
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 19:19, LIU Chris via Bird-users
<bird-users@network.cz> wrote:
Classified as: {OPEN}
I want to implement an application to talk to bird daemon,
basically like birdc/birdcl.
The control socket is TCP stream, it is fine. But the response
from bird daemon adds some headers for each line
I understand server want to make a boundary/delimiter for
stream. Just wondering why not just add how many bytes in the
beginning of response, instead of this inconvenient way (have
to decode line by line). I am not question bird
implementation, just wondering J
Current format like below
Show protocols
0001 BIRD 2.0.10 ready.
2002-Name _Proto_ Table State Since Info
1002-device1 Device --- up
static_bgp Static master4 up
kernel1 Kernel master4 up
0000
With Best Regards,
Chris LIU
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