Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

Hi Juliusz, On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:37:55AM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > https://github.com/christf/libbabelhelper When you feel you're ready, please provide me with a one-line description, and I'll add a link to the Babel page. I just pushed a set of improvements to the library

Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

> https://github.com/christf/libbabelhelper When you feel you're ready, please provide me with a one-line description, and I'll add a link to the Babel page. ___ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

Juliusz Chroboczek writes: >> In this example, parsing the custom format in Python would be something like: > > No, parsing input using string.split is always incorrect. You really > want to write a proper lexer. > > The lexer I posted above is 70 lines of C, including full error >

Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

> The main benefit of a well-known format is that the requirement for a > client goes from easy parsing code to *no* parsing code. Right. So either we add a dependency on JSON to babeld, or we add a trivial parser to every program that consumes babeld's input. > In this example, parsing the

Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

> I agree that the current format is very easy to parse for a human, which > is a benefit. I am struggling to have a machine parse this though. You need a lexer. Here's a simple lexer for you: https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/babel-lexer.c -- Juliusz

Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

Juliusz Chroboczek writes: >> Nils and I wrote such a daemon, called mmfd. It is able to forward >> multicast packets in the whole network. To learn about the topology and >> the relevant neighbours, it queries babeld: mmfd is listening via >> "monitor" on the babeld socket. > >

Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

What do you think of providing the same data over json to make it better parsable? The format of the monitoring interface is well defined : it's a series of lines of the form keyword id key value key value ... where each key/value is either space separated, or a string within double quotes.

Re: [Babel-users] babeld interface

> Nils and I wrote such a daemon, called mmfd. It is able to forward > multicast packets in the whole network. To learn about the topology and > the relevant neighbours, it queries babeld: mmfd is listening via > "monitor" on the babeld socket. Good. > What do you think of providing the same

[Babel-users] babeld interface

Hello, when building a large mesh network, Freifunk communities use maps such that users can find nodes in the real world. For this there must be a daemon collecting telemetry in the network. This daemon must know a little bit about the network topology, at least its neighbours. Nils and I