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On 10/09/10 17:03, Mikio Kishi wrote:
Hi, Amos

To what purpose?

I'd like to implement my squid config viewer. It becomes easier to implement it
if there is already such a parser library. Just a simple question.


With a potentially complicated solution.

I'm not aware of any as such. Webmin plays with the config in a GUI so there may be something they use.

I tried my hand at a config validator/upgrader a year or so ago, it turned out to be some trouble keeping up with all the little details fro validation. I've turned to making the squid internal parser report better instead.


A simple viewer should be a lot easier than one which tries to do things, the overall options come in a few distinct flavours which can be known an displayed appropriately despite the churn in fine detail...

Toggles are:
  directive optionlist

Access controls are:
  directive acllist
or
  directive valuelist acllist

Compounds are:
  directive valuelist optionlist

external_acl_type is a bit of an exception with its multiple lists:
  directive name [optionlist] formatlist helperparams


acllist ::= [allow|deny] acl [ acl ...]

optionlist ::= option [option ...]

valuelist is a fixed number for fields dependent on the directive name.

option ::=  name ["=" flaglist ]

flaglist ::= flag ["," flag]


With the appropriate password a query to the Squid cachemgr API will produce dump of the running config. This will also inline the sub-file content and included sub-configs for you. It does loose the comments and includes options still at their default values though.

Amos
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