Hi all,
Recently jroll proposed the following into oslo.utils
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/308398/
This moves the spec matching (if that's what u can call it) to
oslo.utils so that it can be shared by nova and ironic (which I think is
a fair thing to do, although personally I don't like oslo.utils turning
into to much of a catch-all-lib).
The process proposing that code made me start to look over exactly what
this code is (which sort of scared me). It has some 'interesting'
aspects of it (including the '=' operator doing >= underneath); Anyones
that's history that I'm not sure anyone knows about...
Besides that the other thing that tweaked me about this miniature DSL
was that it was not well defined (making it hard to understand exactly
what it does); so therefore I made
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/313699/ which converts this into a more
traditional 2-step (parse, and then evaluate) process with a well
defined grammar.
The above change uses pyparsing, and uses a traditional (and simple) BNF
grammar variant and it passes all the current tests that exist for this
spec DSL.
Anyways, after doing that I wanted to get any thoughts from people on
the ML about that code, if they can see anything obviously bad about
having more formality in the matching/spec DSL and/or other usages of
things that I am not aware of that might be problematic.
Thanks,
-Josh
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