Re: [Bacula-users] scripts for holding configuration in database

2011/5/28 Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>

I have named the Ruby classes beginning with 'BaculaConf' and they are:
... - BaculaConfFileParser - backend for parsing configuration from files (eg. for importing configuration into MySQL)

I already wrote here in 2010:

During development the prototype of the my new system (Webacula 5.5),
I tried to parse the bacula-dir.conf.
However, this is probably not possible with simple regexp's.
It turned out that some applications, for example, Webmin does this
with a regexp.

But they're doing it wrong!

For example, here is test configuration (which is written according to
"Bacula Main Reference: Customizing the Configuration Files")
contains no errors in terms of Bacula (I checked it) but it would be
wrong parsed (I have not tested it, but I'm sure of it) by 3rd parties
parsers (not native) :

-----------------------------------------
# comment1
# comment2

c o n s o l e
{ Name=name1; Password = "p; \\\a s s w o rd"; J o b A C L = *all\*
}Con sole { N a m e = "name 2"; Pass word = "password"; JobACL =
job/\1, job2, job3
}

-----------------------------------------

I.e. in other words to parse with regexp any Bacula configuration will
be very difficult.

Stefan Muenkner suggested:

a better solution still would be to enable bacula to dump its
configuration as a (e.g.) XML or JSON file, probably in a rather generic
way so that future changes to the structure/content of the config files
would not need additional work on behalf of the bacula developers. XML or
JSON - as examples - could be easily picked up by php, ruby, perl,
python, java you name it whatever.....

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