Re: [LHA-misc] Line parsing routine

[Jay H. <jh...@fa...>]

At 04:37 PM 11/26/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Quoting Neil Cherry <nc...@ho...>:
>
> >
> > This was taken from Jay Hogg's recommendation, I hate it because
> > it's
> > hard to remember (and !12000200 is?) but it is simple and I
> > think it
> > covers all types of commands that can be sent. Maybe instead of
> > value
> > we can change that to num= , str=, hex=, oct=, etc?
> >
> > Hey this is becoming more object oriented!
> >
>
>TO save bandwidth, but make it somewhat readable for debugging, perhaps
>you should use single or double char commands.
>
>Stuff like N=, etc.  But that kinda limits you.  But keeping things 3
>chars or less would do fine.

Hey Neil, If you don't like it I'm game for changes...

What I've got implemented as far as commands are:
USER <user id>
PASS <password>
QUIT
HELP  (displays allowed commands)
LANG  (tells language variants - AGENT-1.0 MCUSTOM)
SET <>
GET <>
NOTIFY <>  (Sets notification events to be received)
Mxxx <>    (Module specific for "playing", dlding code/IR on ocelot

General format of addresses is:
[device name:]device.domain.point
[device name:]device.domain.group.point

Where:
[device name:] is used from the server side to identify an agent
device is the particular address within an agent
    Ocelots: 0=Ocelot, 1..N=Adicon Bus
    ADICON:  0..N=Bus
    RCS Themostats 0..N = Controller # (rs485) or 0 for Serial
    Napco P9600 0=Main Unit (no others)
domain is the area within the device:
    Ocelot & ADICON:
      0=X10, 1=IR, 2=Inputs, 3=Outputs, 100=Parms, 101=Timers, 102=Vars
    RCS Themostats
      Domain = Zone
    Napco
      0=Areas, 1=Keypads, 2=Sensors, 3=Relays
item is the particular variable within the domain

group was in because some devices have more nesting layers and I
needed it when I first layed out the RCS Thems but can't remember
why at the moment.

Regarding the 1/2/3 character variable names - it doesn't make any
difference on the packets if it is <42 bytes because it will be
padded. I'd rather use descriptive names plus it make the
transition to XML and no-brainer because we just change the format
and not the content.

Jay