Re: A simple perl script to convert Cisco IOS configuration to HTML with internal links for easier comprehension

[Jesse McGraw <jlmcgraw () gmail com>]

CSS? Tests? Ha ha ha ha ha

This is quick and dirty.

That being said, I'd love to see some tests for it, more advanced HTML 
output, and also make it a module suitable for using as the back-end of 
a web page.  I just wanted to get something basic working for my 
original purposes.

As for disorganized: what you're seeing in that repository is a bunch of 
separate small utilities, it's not all for this one script.  This 
particular script was split out into 4 separate files so the regexes are 
separate from the actual code, otherwise it was a bit too much.

Check it out on your configs and let me know what you think

-Jesse


On 08/07/2015 12:15 PM, Robert Drake wrote:
> I was going to look at this because it sounded interesting.  Maybe 
> some extra things it could do would be to set div/classes in some 
> parts of the config to denote what it is so that the user could apply 
> css to style it.  That would allow user-defined color syntax 
> highlighting of a sort.
>
> Another nice thing would be collapsible sections so if you're only 
> interested in BGP you can skip interfaces, or if you want to look at 
> route-maps, access-lists, etc.
>
> The project looks a bit disorganized, but I only took a quick glance 
> at it so perhaps it does everything exactly as you intend. Are you 
> thinking of making any of it into modules, or defining tests?  I like 
> the idea of running this as part of a post-rancid process, but it 
> might also be nice if it was a module that could be run in real-time 
> on a config.  Then I could have a mojo wrapper daemon that called it 
> when users accessed /configs/*-confg, or whatever and returned the 
> parsed version.
>
> Anyway, I don't want to create any more work for you, I just wanted to 
> kick out some ideas.  If I have time I will contribute what I can, but 
> I'm already neck deep in some random projects.  I don't mind starting 
> another one, but I don't want to say I'm doing something and then 
> never deliver.  :)