bird control socket response

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LIU,

Can the use case be covered by SNMPd agentx support?

https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/blob/master/doc/roadmap.md

On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 19:19, LIU Chris via Bird-users <
bird-users at network.cz> wrote:

> Classified as: {OPEN}
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> I want to implement an application to talk to bird daemon, basically like
> birdc/birdcl.
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> The control socket is TCP stream, it is fine. But the response from bird
> daemon adds some headers for each line
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> I understand server want to make a boundary/delimiter for stream. Just
> wondering why not just add how many bytes in the beginning of response,
> instead of this inconvenient way (have to decode line by line). I am not
> question bird implementation, just wondering J
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> Current format like below
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> Show protocols
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> 0001 BIRD 2.0.10 ready.
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> 2002-Name       *Proto*      Table      State  Since         Info
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> 1002-device1    Device     ---        up
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>  static_bgp     Static     master4    up
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>  kernel1        Kernel     master4    up
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> 0000
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> With Best Regards,
>
> Chris LIU
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> {OPEN}
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