the lookup is a function, no question. It was the reload that prompted the
action() question. But your comments on how so many things that are standard
options for actions (queues, etc) make no sense for this and so a new statement
type is much cleaner than either disabling, or interacting with all those
standard things.
we do have a handful of other non-action/input/module statements. The parser
and global declarations are examples. the only thing that is unique in table
lookups is the ability to trigger the reload based on runtime logic.
David Lang
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, singh.janmejay wrote:
Putting it next to functions makes sense. I'll start working on it today.
I thought about it while implementing it. I felt action will be rather
confusing for this.
It is easier to think of it as a function to lookup, and supporting
statements to declare,find and load-up on-disk definition, or to reload it
etc.
Action has controls to build a high throughput egress port with
configurable formatting (like tuneable queue, parallel processing in worker
pool, safety valve to discard low priority messages, template etc) which
are not relevant for reload control.
So I feel it's simpler to understand and use as a statement.
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On Feb 10, 2016 3:41 AM, "David Lang" <[email protected]> wrote:
My thinking is that the main use is in looking things up, where it is a
function and goes everywhere that any of the other functions can go.
The action to (re)load the table is a supporting thing, for most people
done only at startup.
As a (probably) silly thought, should the table (re)load be an action()
clause as opposed to a different type of statement? the initial
lookup-table writeup was done a long time ago, before action() became a
significant part of the config languange.
David Lang
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, singh.janmejay wrote:
I guess everyone is OK with putting it in as a function and linking out to
details.
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On Feb 8, 2016 7:50 PM, "singh.janmejay" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Well, they don't really fit the definition of functions. Functions in
our case are expressions, these are a mix of expression (usage) and
statement (declaration) and in case of lookup-table it involves an
out-of-band data-file too.
We can document the usage part of it under functions and then add link
to a page that talks about the declaration (and explains how it works
etc).
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:15 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, singh.janmejay wrote:
Does it go parallel to basic_structure or action etc?
And where all should we link it from?
I would expect it under functions, I don't know if they need additional
links as well.
David Lang
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