<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Aleksander Morgado </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><<a href="mailto:aleksander@aleksander.es" target="_blank">aleksander@aleksander.es</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr"><br>
On Aug 6, 2015 5:13 PM, "Neal Gompa" <<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com" target="_blank">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Dan Williams <<a href="mailto:dcbw@redhat.com" target="_blank">dcbw@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 08:57 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:<br>
>> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Markus Gothe <<a href="mailto:nietzsche@lysator.liu.se" target="_blank">nietzsche@lysator.liu.se</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > > Please tell me if I am wrong… But this quite a design issue which we need to come down to consensus… Right?<br>
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>> > Well, it's not like we're changing the behavior of the kernel driver.<br>
>> > This is just a small design issue in mbimcli :)<br>
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>> > What's your opinion on this? Do you prefer the "=" separated key/value<br>
>> > pairs, or just the prefixed "N:" with additional optional arguments<br>
>> > for things like ip-type?<br>
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>> I personally prefer = separated key/value pairs, keeping compat with the<br>
>> old unkeyed format. So I'll try to do that, but might not happen this<br>
>> week.<br>
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>> Dan<br>
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> If I could chime in for a moment:<br>
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> I favor the key/value pair format, as it makes it easier to figure out how to lay out configuration information. Heck, it makes it possible for me to easily structure a program that would take in JSON data representing the configuration and map it straight to mbimcli so that it can be processed. It would be also awesome if some kind of key/value output format could be available as an option for parsing the output that comes back after mbimcli successfully connects. The human-readable output today that shows up in git master is great for humans, but it's a bit tricky to parse for scripting.<br>
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> If there's a key/value input and key/value output mechanism, that would make what I'm working on much easier.<br>
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</span><p dir="ltr">Yes, totally agree regarding the output thing. Something like an additional --script option or something that would generate key/value pairs for the outputs of all commands. That would be a truly nice improvement and actually quite trivial to implement.</p>
</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">I don't know if you want to go with a different format type, but I would think JSON would be a good format for that. Most programming/scripting environments handle JSON quite well natively (like Python, and well, JavaScript) or through an extension (like PHP, Perl, C#, etc.). Speaking as someone who is trying to use mbimcli in a scripting environment, I would appreciate some standardized format that's easy to implement, if it's not JSON.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">At the very least, inputs+outputs with key/value pair format would make it easy to configure multiple contexts with different settings (such as session type, IP type, etc.). For my current needs (registering on the network, being able to configure multiple APNs for a single device, setting IP types per APN, using the information returned from mbimcli on connect to set the network interface and bring it up), it would be awesome if mbimcli had the key/value pair input and the script-friendly key/value paired output.</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!<br></div></div>
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