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Re: [tor-bugs] #5651 [Metrics Utilities]: Annotation header with descriptor types
#5651: Annotation header with descriptor types
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Reporter: atagar | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Metrics Utilities | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by atagar):
> What are you trying to do, under what constraint?
The goal of this is to allow a descriptor parser to reliably figure out
how it should parse files. At present stem and metrics-lib infer a file's
type by checking its filename and the first line of its contents, for
instance a first line starting with 'router Unnamed 10.' indicates that
it's a bridge descriptor. This is pretty hacky.
Admittedly this is mostly just an issue for metrics descriptors since the
filename is a reliable indicator for cached files. Using the filename
feels like a bit of a hack which is why I wanted to apply this to cached
descriptors too, but it's not horrible. I'm fine with proceeding with this
as being a metrics-only header. Thoughts, Karsten?
Cheers! -Damian
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