[Interop-dev] RFC: add parameter link-type

[Henning Rogge]

Sorry, my fault...

don't call it type...

call it "link-specific" and the value be "yes" or "no".

Henning

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Nemesis <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> On 08/28/2015 02:06 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Bastian Bittorf <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>> * Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)> [27.08.2015 19:20]:
>>>> maybe we could add a "type" flag to the header of the NetworkGraph
>>>> object that can be "link" or "node"...
>>>>
>>>> link data is link/interface specific, node data just cares about
>>>> connections between nodes.
>>> please write an example json.
>> {
>> "type": "NetworkGraph",
>> "protocol": "olsr",
>> "version": "0.6.6",
>> "revision": "5031a799fcbe17f61d57e387bc3806de",
>> "metric": "etx",
>> "router_id": "172.16.40.24",
>> "type": "node",
>
> pay attention: type is repeated two times, which is not valid JSON.
> At best the parser will ignore the first occurrence and use the second one,
> at worst the parser will raise an exception and stop parsing.
>
>> "nodes": [
>>
>> ...
>>
>> versus
>>
>> {
>> "type": "NetworkGraph",
>> "protocol": "olsr",
>> "version": "0.6.6",
>> "revision": "5031a799fcbe17f61d57e387bc3806de",
>> "metric": "etx",
>> "router_id": "172.16.40.24",
>> "type": "link",
>
> same here
>
>> "nodes": [
>>
>>
>> The first don't care about interfaces, just about routers and about
>> edges that telling the code that the two routers are somehow connected
>> by a single hop. You can get this kind of data from a single OLSR
>> node.
>>
>> The second variant would have additional variables for the "edges"
>> that announce the outgoing interface, maybe the mac address of the
>> interface, and could even contain things like channel-frequency and
>> bandwidth. You need to query this data from all over the mesh.
>
> We definitely need something for local neighbour info, so we should open
> an issue and keep discussing and experimenting.
>
> I would like this object to be mostly compatible with NetworkGraph, if
> possible.
>
> Federico
>
>
>