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Re: [Bacula-users] How to parse Bacula conf files

2010-10-21 09:49:11
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to parse Bacula conf files
From: Stefan Muenkner <stefan.muenkner AT uks DOT eu>
To: jfisher AT pvct DOT com
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:42:25 +0200
On 20.10.2010 16:25, Josh Fisher wrote:
> 
> On 10/19/2010 8:28 AM, Yuri Timofeev wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> 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
> 
> I don't think regexp will work. The best way is to translate the C code 
> from the Bacula source into PHP. Since you are requiring PHP 5.0 or 
> above, I think, then the values could be placed in a class object, just 
> as Bacula puts them in C struct. Or, since all directives are key=value 
> pairs, you could just put them in an associative array.
> 
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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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