On 06/07/2011 05:52 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote:
>> Can't you spawn bconsole from the web application? That is what most
>> of the other web apps do.
> [...]
> I'm hoping that there might be a protocol that cuts out all the screen 
> parsing and instead lets me just do something like:
>
> 1. Connect to the bacula-dir daemon
> 2. Authenticate
> 3. Send a command like "show status client blah.foo.bar-fd"
>
> and have that return machine-parse-able status information, rather than 
> human-readable information.
You can skip the "parse the list of clients" step by just sending
"status client=blah.foo.bar-fd" directly to bconsole, but I personally
would also love to see more easily machine-parseable output - just
adding to bconsole's commands themselves an "out=xml" or "out=json" or
similar modifier that returns the information in an easier to parse form
instead of the default "human readable" form would be extremely useful
to me.

(I wrote a web-interface script that talks to bconsole.  Getting the
response isn't really that hard, but I do end up going through a series
of regex's to pick out the individual bits of information that I want
from the output, which is obviously kind of a pain.)

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