[Intelmq-dev] Packaging Strategy for Bots with dependencies

[Tomás Lima]

Dustin,

>From my side, fully agree!

Cheers

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Dustin Demuth <dustin.demuth at intevation.de
> wrote:

>
> Hello Folks,
>
> Tomás, thank you for your input.
> I'll describe my Ideas in more detail.
>
> # Recent situation:
> Right now the bots-directory looks like this:
>  intelmq/bots/
>   ./collectors/
>   ./experts/
>   ./outputs/
>   ./parsers/
>   ./BOTS
>
> The file BOTS contains all data on bots available in the folders. Or
> enables
> the replication of those with differents URLs.
> It is not simple enough to add new bots to this file automagically.
> Removing
> them is even harder.
>
> # Idea:
> When BOTS would be a directory looking like this:
>  ./bots.d/
>   ./collectors/
>   ./experts/
>   ./outputs/
>   ./parsers/
>
> It would be easier to maintain bots automatically.
> Just copy a collector-bot-config-file into bots.d/collectors/ to add a new
> collector. Removing them is also that easy.
>
> Concerning your Questions:
> Am Samstag 16 April 2016 17:28:32 schrieben Sie:
> >
> > Repositories:
> > - how many?
>
> *Everything* that requires dependencies that are not met by the "CORE
> Application" (which needs to be defined), should be kept in a seperate
> repository.
> To facilitate development of new bots, clonable example-bots could be
> provided.
>
> > - description for each one
> > - examples of which kind of code each one will have
>
> Sorry, I don't get that.
>
> > You mentioned some complexity regarding this changes. What kind of
> > complexity do you see?
>
> It's not one file anymore, you need to inspect several files and folders.
>
> > collector.conf, parser.conf, expert.conf and output.conf are the default
> > configurations for each type of bot which should be inherit for each type
> > of bot. Example: phishtank parser will load all configs from parser.conf
> > and if phishtank.parser.conf has some redefine parameters, this
> parameters
> > should overwrite the default ones.
>
> I think using inheritance is too complex. Let's keep it simple.
>
> Until now, I did not think about runtime and default configuration of the
> bots. This would also be reasonable.
>
>
> BR
> Dustin
>
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