James Peach created TS-4505:
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Summary: Generic config file parsing that works
Key: TS-4505
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-4505
Project: Traffic Server
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Cleanup, Core, Management API
Reporter: James Peach
We have a big mess in config file parsing.
The management API uses {{./mgmt/api/GenericParser.*}} to parse mostly generic
key=value syntax, but nothing calls those APIs. We should remove them.
Internally, other files are parsed by hand (each with a different set of bugs)
or by using {{parseConfigLine}}, which was not really intended for generic
parsing and has a kind of crappy interface.
What we need is to nuke all this code and have a single interface for parsing
files sanely. The top level parser maps a file and emits a stream of lines.
This should support comments, empty line elision and line continuations. Each
line should come with a {{SourceLocation}} object for error messages. The
stream of lines is consumed by a key=value tokenizer that each subsystem
digests. This would be broadly similar to the {{GenericParser}} stuff.
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