[Freeciv-Dev] Re: server console cleanup patch v2

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Reinier Post wrote:
> Yes, and I was trying to say, for that you need a different packet format,
> with both the values and the attribute names.

No, can just send it all as a single string, eg "topic.ouroption.somewhere
= { "first", "second",\n 15, 13 }", then pass it to registry functions to
parse.

> Once you have that, the code on the receiving end must encode the data
> structure not in the C struct but in an associative array, similar to
> the settings structure in server/stdinhand.c but with a hash for the
> attribute names.

I don't see why. This scheme would replace the settings struct in
server/stdinhand, but since this struct is not used for lookups during
the game, there is no need to encode the ruleset info into a new format.

The client must encode the data in a GUI-dependent fashion, though.

> I don't know, it seems acceptable to have a command like /set mintimeout 40
> so perhaps min* and max* can be regular variables.

I am not sure if I understand what you mean. What I have in mind is
something like this:

[topic]
mintimeout = 40
mintimeout.min = 0
mintimeout.max = 80
mintimeout.helptext = "Sets timeout for for blah blah blah"
nextoption = ...

> It's different for variables that take file paths or player names.

And some ints that must be lower/higher than another int, etc etc... there
are numerous "special cases" that must be checked+bounced from the server,
anyway, so I'm not entirely convinced that min/max info should be in the
ruleset...

> It would be good to still have the cmdline interface in the server binary,
> otherwise you need to start up two programs just to run a server.

No, that will not be necessary.

        $ civserver --read these.rules
        - or -
        $ civserver --read debug.rules --autostart

Gives you all you need without a client. Among these rules can be eg
aifill and create (ie moving commands into ruleset).

Yours,
Per

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