On 2023-12-13 11:28, Nigel Kukard wrote:
On 12/13/23 10:14, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote:
Hello!
On 2023-12-13 10:19, Kees Meijs | Nefos wrote:
Hi,
On 12-12-2023 17:20, Maria Matejka via Bird-users wrote:
We're prototyping a machine-friendly interface which should
include, in some later versions, also subscribing to various
notifications.
Hear hear! Probably asked before, but being integrated (albeit with
a shim) in SNMP would be lovely.
We are finishing some SNMP support as well but mostly we're trying to
have a YANG-defined API encoded in CBOR. And because this is quite a
new technology, we may create some relevant tools during the process;
if anybody is interested in some specifics, we may keep you informed
about the development.
Any API interface that can acquire the data available with birdc
commands would be very greatly appreciated. Even if the commands just
hand an option to return results were in some machine readable format
like JSON. I currently have a python daemon that connects to the
control socket which is rather tedious in terms of parsing all the
command outputs. :)
No JSON and no XML will get into mainline BIRD, it's a performance
nightmare. I admit that we are taking our time to introduce the
CBOR/YANG API, OTOH we wanna make it good enough to last for some …
decades? without substantial changes.
Thank you for your patience.
Maria
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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
