[ovs-dev] [RFC] db-ctl-base: Make common database command code into library.

[William Adams]

Hi Alex,

I'm pretty new to the Open vSwitch world, but I've been working on a LuaJIT 
binding for the same:
http://github.com/wiladams/LJIT2ovs

While I've done the lowest level stuff, I am now focusing on higher level utilities, 
such as ovs-vsctl and the like.

>From a scripting environment perspective, it would be great to isolate these 
command processors in a separate library.  I found myself doing the same from 
the Lua side of things, so it will probably be generally useful.

Additionally, since I'm in script, it's a lot easier to make a lot of little command-lets, 
instead of larger "apps" or utilities.  That way I can stitch together whatever I 
like, only pulling in what's necessary for that particular command.  I don't know
if that fits into the general philosophy of ovs, but that's the way I find I'm doing 
it for script.

-- William



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> From: alexw at nicira.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:05:22 -0700
> To: dev at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC] db-ctl-base: Make common database command code into library.
>
> Sorry for the bulky patch,~
>
> Seeking for high-level comment, (especially if extracting like this make
> sense)
> Also thought about making a command just for the generic database
> manipulation commands... but still think unifying the command syntax is
> worth-doing~
>