28 Aug
2017
28 Aug
'17
12:53 p.m.
On Aug 26, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Robin Sommer
<robin(a)icir.org> wrote:
Jon, replacing send_id() may indeed work better with an extension at
the C++/Broker level.
- I'm thinking the best approach may be a new
Bro-specific
message for Broker, similar to the log-create/write messages.
We can add that to the Bro shim in Broker. It'd send the name
of the ID and the new value as a broker::data instance, and the
receiving Bro updates the value as the message comes in.
Sounds ok. Were you going to work on adding such a message or want me to try?
- There's one larger problem with replacing
send_id() though: the
old communication system has logic to send large values
incrementally, so that send_id() won't block stuff.
Thanks, I had missed that fact.
Generally for porting scripts to use Broker, I was probably going to end up doing the most
straightforward thing I can think of to just get things to work and hope people follow
commit messages well enough to call out anything questionable. Do you think there’s a
better process for capturing high-level requirements earlier?
- Jon