On 19/11/2012 3:11 p.m., Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
On 11/19/2012 3:34 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
Wonderful to hear about more progress in the administration sphere.
I have an ongoing project by Francesco Chemolli (kinkie) to improve the
cachemgr and SNMP information feeds. Would you be interested in
collaboration on the Squid internal upgrades needed to support our three
administration interfaces?
The prime objectives of our feature project in no particular order are:
* to upgrade the cachemgr reports output such that it can be used as
an Open Web API for managing Squid via plugin Web UI.
* create a HTML + XHR alternative to cachemgr.CGI.
* to synchronize the cachemgr and SNMP reporting such that all data is
equally available through either - as alternative API rather than
supplementary.
Amos Jeffries
Treehouse Networks Ltd.
About the above mention cachemgr information feeds:
the current output should or was Space limited for some or all?
What do you mean?
"limited" -> "delimited" ? no,
tables are TSV format (tab separated values on a line prefixed with a
\t),
some lists of values are kv-pair in mime format (delimited with ':'
and optional whitespace padding around values) as seen in the helper and
DNS reports,
some lists of values are kv-pair delimited with '=' as seen in the
statistics report.
... we are still debating format upgrades for future Squid.
Is there any basic template for html + xhr?
We opted not to publish a particular MGR_INDEX file with Squid, but to
design such that the template with script code should belong to and be
installed by third-party management tools using the interface. The file
should contain a complete HTML page and you can do anything you like for
the markup. The only caveat is that it is a static HTML page (only
browser interpreted scripting allowed). Squid error page macro
substitution is performed on it prior to delivery (but not on other
resources included by it).
Designing a better manager UI tool was kinkies project, I'm not sure if
the result was going to become FOSS or not, but anyone aiming at making
a good one of their own is welcome to give it a go.
Even the current output(cachemgr or SNMP) can be transformed into
XHR(using small script) for older versions in a case of new HTML+XHR.
Eliezer
