Re: Re:[REQ] generic config struct for parameter value lists

I don't imagine performance will be significan'tly affected since these
parameters are initialized on startup and loaded into memory.


Ehi


On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 23:32 +0200, Nikos Balkanas wrote:
> When was it proposed? How is it going to affect performance?
> 
> BR,
> Nikos
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> From: "Ehizogie Binitie" <[email protected]>
> To: "devel" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:07 PM
> Subject: Re:[REQ] generic config struct for parameter value lists
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> 
> Hi List,
> 
> Was this feature proposed by Stipe ever implemented ?
> 
> I think its an excellent idea.
> 
> Ehi
> 
> 
> 
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> Hi list,
> 
> I have some good input on extending Kannel's config handling abilities:
> 
> Currently we have several needs for a config value list, some examples:
> 
>    group = smsc
>    ...
>    accepted-smsc-id = "A;B;C"
> 
>    group = sms-service
>    ...
>    aliases = "key2;key3;key4"
> 
>    group = smsbox-route
>    ...
>    shortcode = "1111;2222;3333"
> 
> so, all of these are either of type word-list or id-list, semantically
> it's a
> semicolon seperated list. For some parts we have defined foobar-regex
> config
> directives to handle PCRE/regex for a more simple definition.
> 
> The idea now is to create a more generic construct for this, which
> handles 3
> (maybe more?) different ways for any "list-type":
> 
>    foobar = "A;B;C"
>    foobar-url = "http://somewhere/foobar-list"
>    foobar-regex = "<the regex expression>"
> 
> so users can *CHOOSE* which way they prefer. And we handle the
> processing of the
> list "transparently" to the logic that requires the list from the config
> sections.
> 
> I like this concept of abstraction here. Since we would encapsulate the
> plain,
> -url and -regex handling to the scope of gwlib/cfg.{ch] and the other
> calling
> modules simply pull for the list.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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