[Interop-dev] [NetJSON] DeviceConfiguration implementation: netjsonconfig

[Nemesis]

Hi all,

I've written more about netjsonconfig and its rationale here:
https://confine.funkfeuer.at/2015/10/netjson-to-uci-config/

Federico


On 09/25/2015 04:28 PM, Nemesis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> over the last two weeks I have been working on an implementation of
> the DeviceConfiguration spec:
> https://github.com/openwisp/netjsonconfig
>
> The idea is to have a relatively small python library to convert
> NetJSON to real router configurations, at the moment I'm working
> exclusively on OpenWRT UCI configs.
> The openwisp project already has a UCI config generator, but the team
> is not satisfied with it because adding features requires changing SQL
> tables, the generated configs are too specific to a few use cases and
> the generator code is embedded in a ruby on rails web app (OpenWISP
> Manager), which makes it uninteresting for a lot of other potential
> users and contributors.
> The idea for the netjsonconfig library is to keep it small and well
> documented, so that other more complex apps can easily integrate it if
> they need.
>
> For a practical example see the following test:
> https://github.com/openwisp/netjsonconfig/blob/master/tests/openwrt/test_wireless.py#L186-L247
> A few uci config blocks are generated from a NetJSON object.
> Nothing special really, but this work it's allowing me to test and
> improve the spec.
> That's the reason for which I'm opening more issues on github
> regarding this object and I will be sending more emails about it.
>
> The (always up to date) DeviceConfiguration spec and its relative JSON
> Schema definition are available at the following URLs:
>
>   * spec: http://netjson.org/rfc.html#rfc.section.5
>   * schema: http://netjson.org/rfc.html#DeviceConfiguration-schema
>
> Nemesis
>
>
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