On 10/21/2010 8:42 AM, Stefan Muenkner wrote:
> 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.
> 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.....

That is definitely the best solution for the future.

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