Re: JunOS config yacc grammar?

[Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner () gmail com>]

I would first try to understand what you are trying to achieve. JUNOS is
very flexible on this front and I am wondering why you think yacc is the
right way to achieve what you are trying to do.

If no one (or very few) these days is using yacc grammar for parsing router
configs, that should be a good indication whether you are on the right path
or not.

As already pointed out, navigating the XML trees or JSON structures
would be much easier than writing a yacc grammar parser.

Alternatively, I would look into the YANG files:
https://github.com/Juniper/yang

But without understanding what you are trying to do, this is just another
suggestion.

./diogo -montagner
JNCIE-SP 0x41A


On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 09:53, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <
lyndon () orthanc ca> wrote:

> Nick Hilliard writes:
>
> > No need to reinvent that wheel:
> >
> > root@foo> show configuration | display xml
> > root@foo> show configuration | display json
>
> That doesn't quite work for this scenario.  It would mean ssh-ing
> to the switch to grab it, and that's pretty locked down.  We already
> have cron jobs running on the switches that tftp the config file
> to a server, and I'd prefer to leverage off that.
>
> Also, the yacc parser would let me do some validation checks
> before we push new configs.
>
> --lyndon