Re: [PATCHv3 iproute2-next 3/7] iproute_lwtunnel: add options support for erspan metadata

[Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:51 AM David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/14/20 9:18 PM, Xin Long wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 8:21 AM Stephen Hemminger
> > <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 01:40:27 +0800
> >> Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This's not gonna work. as the output will be:
> >>> {"ver":"0x2","idx":"0","dir":"0x1","hwid":"0x2"}  (string)
> >>> instead of
> >>> {"ver":2,"index":0,"dir":1,"hwid":2} (number)
> >>
> >> JSON is typeless. Lots of values are already printed in hex
> > You may mean JSON data itself is typeless.
> > But JSON objects are typed when parsing JSON data, which includes
> > string, number, array, boolean. So it matters how to define the
> > members' 'type' in JSON data.
> >
> > For example, in python's 'json' module:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/python2
> > import json
> > json_data_1 = '{"ver":"0x2","idx":"0","dir":"0x1","hwid":"0x2"}'
> > json_data_2 = '{"ver":2,"index":0,"dir":1,"hwid":2}'
> > parsed_json_1 = (json.loads(json_data_1))
> > parsed_json_2 = (json.loads(json_data_2))
> > print type(parsed_json_1["hwid"])
> > print type(parsed_json_2["hwid"])
> >
> > The output is:
> > <type 'unicode'>
> > <type 'int'>
> >
> > Also, '{"result": true}' is different from '{"result": "true"}' when
> > loading it in a 3rd-party lib.
> >
> > I think the JSON data coming from iproute2 is designed to be used by
> > a 3rd-party lib to parse, not just to show to users. To keep these
> > members' original type (numbers) is more appropriate, IMO.
> >
>
> Stephen: why do you think all of the numbers should be in hex?
>
> It seems like consistency with existing output should matter more.
> ip/link_gre.c for instance prints index as an int, version as an int,
> direction as a string and only hwid in hex.
>
> Xin: any reason you did not follow the output of the existingg netdev
> based solutions?
Hi David,

Option is expressed as "version:index:dir:hwid", I made all fields
in this string of hex, just like "class:type:data" in:

commit 0ed5269f9e41f495c8e9020c85f5e1644c1afc57
Author: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 26 21:39:37 2018 -0700

    net/sched: add tunnel option support to act_tunnel_key

I'm not sure if it's good to mix multiple types in this string. wdyt?

but for the JSON data, of course, these are all numbers(not string).

Thanks.