Hi Arun, welcome to the community!
Just to provide more information, we have to thank Freifunk for their help in getting this GSOC slot, here's the abstract that got this project started: https://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas#Implement_NetJSON_output_in_ubus_.28OpenWRT.2FLEDE.29 Best regards Federico On 05/10/2017 11:24 AM, Arun Kumar wrote: > Hi Developers, > > I am Arunkumar Ravichandran currently admitted for masters program at > University of California, San Diego. My proposal [1] Implement NetJSON > output in ubus (OpenWRT/LEDE) has been accepted to the GSOC 2017 and I > would like to tell more about my proposed project. > > The main aim of this project is to implement parts of the NetJSON[2] > specification in the OpenWRT/LEDE ecosystem. > > Why NetJSON ?? > NetJSON would allow standardization similar to NETCONF. Since NetJSON > uses JSON format, it makes the management of configurations done at a > higher level and larger scale to be automated easily. By using NetJSON > objects to either produce or collect information, in different > vendor’s different hardware, it allows the developers to work on their > ideas faster and in a better way. > > Implementation: > The support for NETJSON is brought in at the interconnect system- > ubus[3]. To add support for a new ubus API which allows retrieving > these two NetJSON object types: DeviceConfiguration[6] and > DeviceMonitoring[7]. The NetJSON objects are filled in using the > plugins available in System Configuration Abstraction Layer(SCAL)[4]. > Full project proposal can be read at [5]. > > I would welcome further suggestions from the LEDE/ OpenWRT community > as that would help in implementing this feature sooner and in a better > way, and also more resilient to multiple data models which are being > used to represent network configurations. > > [1] > https://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas#Implement_NetJSON_output_in_ubus_.28OpenWRT.2FLEDE.29 > [2] https://github.com/netjson/netjson > [3] https://lede-project.org/docs/guide-developer/ubus > [4] https://github.com/prplfoundation/scal > [5] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b6zersOA_GjUqbOjuaXvFd4E40l1MqUXjIyVagLLd08/edit?usp=sharing > [6] http://netjson.org/docs/what.html#deviceconfiguration > [7] http://netjson.org/docs/what.html#devicemonitoring > > Thanks, > Arun > > _______________________________________________ > Lede-dev mailing list > Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev > _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
