[ovs-dev] [RFC] Output refactor for customized displays
Aaron Conole
aconole at redhat.com
Mon Nov 21 14:35:31 UTC 2016
Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 05:22:27PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> During some recent face-to-face talks regarding debugging ovs, an issue
>> was raised regarding the output. The gist of the conversation was that as
>> it stands, ovs output is less-than-friendly, and a different output would
>> be helpful.
>>
>> Looking a bit into it, it appears that the output routines for most of the
>> openflow / ovs data uses the dynamic string library to just append as much
>> structure data as possible, in whatever form was originally useful. This
>> is fine for ovs wizards, but some 'mere mortals' would prefer prettier
>> output with the ability to tweak / omit the data that comes out of the tools.
>
> I like the idea of a table printing framework, but can you explain why
> this library is separate from the one in lib/table.[ch]?
Yes I can - I completely missed table.{c,h}
Thanks for the review - I'll use the table library for my work.
-Aaron
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