NAME

BGPmon::Translator::XFB2BGPdump - Converts an XML message into an array of BGPdump formatted messages.

SYNOPSIS This module takes a XML message as input and outputs a string in libbgpdump format.

    use BGPmon::Translator::XFB2BGPdump;

    my %bgpdump_strs = translate_msg ($xml_message);
    foreach my $safi (sort{$a <= $b} keys %bgpdump_strs) {
        print "Printing bgpdump lines for prefixes with safi value $safi\n";
        my @safi_lines = @{$bgpdump_strs{$safi}};
        foreach my $bgpdump_line (@safi_lines) {
            print "$bgpdump_line\n";
        }
    }

EXPORT

translate_message translate_msg get_error_code get_error_message get_error_msg

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

translate_message

This function accepts exactly one XML message and returns a hash of arrays, indexed by SAFI values. Each array contains bgpdump formatted strings for the SAFI value. Inputs: 1. xmlmessage : Exactly one XML message. Outputs: 1. Returns a hash of arrays, indexed by SAFI values. Each array contains bgpdump formatted strings for the SAFI value.

translate_msg

Shorthand call for translate_message.

get_error_code

Get the error code for a given function Input : the name of the function whose error code we should report Output: the function's error code or ARGUMENT_ERROR if the user did not supply a function or INVALID_FUNCTION_SPECIFIED if the user provided an invalid function Usage: my $err_code = get_error_code("connect_archive");

get_error_message {

Get the error message of a given function Input : the name of the function whose error message we should report Output: the function's error message or ARGUMENT_ERROR if the user did not supply a function or INVALID_FUNCTION_SPECIFIED if the user provided an invalid function Usage: my $err_msg = get_error_message("read_xml_message");

get_error_msg

Shorthand call for get_error_message

AUTHOR

Kaustubh Gadkari, <kaustubh at cs.colostate.edu>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bgpmon at netsec.colostate.edu, or through the web interface at http://bgpmon.netsec.colostate.edu.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc BGPmon::Client

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  File: XFB2BGPdump.pm
  Authors: Kaustubh Gadkari, Dan Massey, Cathie Olschanowsky
  Date: August 3, 2012