Establishing connections to multiple PDPs simultaneously with MBIM

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Aleksander Morgado <
aleksander at aleksander.es> wrote:

>
> On Aug 6, 2015 5:13 PM, "Neal Gompa" <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 08:57 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Markus Gothe <
> nietzsche at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> >> > > Please tell me if I am wrong… But this quite a design issue which
> we need to come down to consensus… Right?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Well, it's not like we're changing the behavior of the kernel driver.
> >> > This is just a small design issue in mbimcli :)
> >> >
> >> > What's your opinion on this? Do you prefer the "=" separated key/value
> >> > pairs, or just the prefixed "N:" with additional optional arguments
> >> > for things like ip-type?
> >>
> >> I personally prefer = separated key/value pairs, keeping compat with the
> >> old unkeyed format.  So I'll try to do that, but might not happen this
> >> week.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >
> > ​If I could chime in for a moment:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > If there's a key/value input and key/value output mechanism, that would
> make what I'm working on much easier.​
> >
>
> 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.
>
​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.

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.



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