[PHP-DEV] Re: SNMP value retrieval

[Harrie Hazewinkel]

On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 08:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Jonny, it your personal email address is bouncing.
That you know (maybe even the mailinglist email bounces for you).
Sorry for that. It seems like 1409.org is permanently gone. I've now 
switched
to an account I have to pay for just to be on the safe side in the 
future. I
hope this will also prevent most of the spam I received as they use
SpamAssassin...
I had hazewinkel.net also and maybe within the spam I did
not receive or see the invoice of the domain.
- SNMP_VALUEMETHOD_LIBRARY:
- SNMP_VALUEMETHOD_PLAIN:
- SNMP_VALUEMETHOD_OBJECT:
Do these names to be so long?? I was thinking we cane drop the
'VALUEMETHOD' or 'METHOD' part. Would that be OK and which do
you prefer??
To be honest I was never happy with these names. "valuemethod" sounds 
clumsy
to me, but English is not my mother tongue. I'm also not happy with
"snmp_setvaluemethod" as a function name. Maybe we could call the 
function
"snmp_setvalueretrieval" and the constants SNMP_VALUE_*? I'm really not
insisting on names, I only want the functionality, so every comment is
welcome!
The names are not that important, but long ones require a lot
of typing from programmers and shorter ones avoid such a change.
I would 'VALUEMETHOD' drop completely.

 the value type returned by the SNMP
  agent (the ASN_* constants from the net-snmp library are also
  defined as PHP constants)
I believe the ASN_ prefix should be SNMP_ and changed as such.
That they are internally ASN_ does not matter.
Ok, I'll change these constants to SNMP_*.
OK.
ANother thing I would like to ask is whether the group wants to 
support
also all kinds of types of SNMP that are not standardized and somehow
added to NET-SNMP as an expiriment.
I believe it is better to drop those, what do you think??
I don't need them. If nobody gives me some reason to keep them, I'll 
drop
them.
I would say only standard bits. The expirimental parts
as as said, expirimental and many agents do not have them
either.
I'll wait for another week for some comments as I have a strange 
feeling that
absolutely nobody else has yet commented on the patch. If no further 
comments
are posted, I'll create a new patch. Would be a dream if gets into 
4.3.3...
Not sure, but why not.

Harrie

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