[Olsr-dev] GSoC 2010 - Olsrd questions for Freimap

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu August 5 2010 13:16:10 Pilla Stefano wrote:
> > Plugins cannot communicate with each other, so the httpinfo/txtinfo
> > plugin is not aware of the internal state of the nameservice plugin.
> 
> This means that the only way to know if the nameservice plugin is active is
> to check the existence of the latlon file....logically in the default
> position....however this is not a good solution...any suggestions?
You could add some kind of communication socket to the nameservice plugin, but 
that would be a lot of effort for a small gain.

In the master branch we could convert the namespace plugin from the named pipe 
to a telnet command, so multiple programs can query it, but that's not 
possible this easy in the stable branch.

> > Maybe you could add the path/name of the latlon.js file into the
> > configuration of your program instead of looking in the OLSRd conf for
> > it ?
> 
> One of the main goal of this project is to completly remove config
> file....when the application starts it should be able to discover olsrd
> configuration ....
> 
> Also for this....any suggestions?
I don't think this is possible. You need at least the port of a communication 
socket, the path of a config file or some other settings.

Trying to read the config file of another program is (most times) a bad idea, 
because the format can change in a way you don't suspect.
 
> >> For step 2, there is a way to discover the position of the olsr.conf
> >> file?  If the user change the default value how I can check the new
> >> position?
> > 
> > No, there is no easy way to do this.
> > 
> > Different distributions (debian, openwrt, native compile) place their
> > configurations into different paths.
> 
> I have to do a "settings" panel in which users can specify the correct
> paths....this means have a config file that can be modified from the
> application at runtime... This solution can also resolve some of the
> previous problems....what do you think?
I think a small config file (maybe even with a web based admin page as you 
suggested) is a good idea.

Henning Rogge
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