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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 02:37:32 +0800
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Allow vis daemon to serve mesh topology
	simultaneously in dot_draw and JSON format
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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 01:01:48 Antoine van Gelder wrote:
> After some great input from Marek I took a swing at rewriting my vis
> patch to allow serving of mesh topology simultaneously in dot_draw &
> json.
>
>
> * -j enables JSON server on port 2005
>
> * dot_draw continues to be served on port 2004 irrespective of whether
> -j is specified or not.

Nice patch - I just uploaded it.


> Some thoughts:
>
> * It is not the prettiest of patches but it works. Thinking about
> cleaner approaches makes my imagination drift in the direction of a
> simple plugin API such as OLSRd has, anyone else having any similar
> thoughts ? :)
>
> * I'm serving json on port 2005 - any alternative suggestions ?

The code itself is far from being pretty. As usual it started as a proof of 
concept grew into a temporary solution and is still around. It worked quite 
well so far but if you have ideas & energy to improve it, please go ahead. :-)

Regards,
Marek