[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] kvargs: support list value

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Oct 9 17:11:40 CEST 2018


On Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:31:24 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> 09/10/2018 16:14, Gaëtan Rivet:
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 04:18:55AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:  
> > > If a value contains a comma, rte_kvargs_tokenize() will split here.
> > > In order to support list syntax [a,b] as value, an extra parsing of
> > > the square brackets is added.
> > >   
> > 
> > Nice, I was actually planning to do this.
> > 
> > I think it could be useful to also support () and {}, as well as
> > recursive lists, but it is best to have a first version to support
> > representor and go from this.  
> 
> Yes, we have no usage of () and {} so far.

This is getting complex enough that doing a real parser maybe necessary.
Why not lex/yacc?

Or better yet go to real syntax like JSON.


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