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Semantically, all the implemented error handling for the try-except- blocks around calls to "maybe_node_by_mac()" or "maybe_node_by_id()" in nodedb.py only handle the case that a particular MAC address cannot be found in the list of known nodes. If such a MAC address cannot be found in this list, the methods properly indicate this by raising a KeyError. However, all the try-except-block generically catch all exceptions and thus may cover other problems. But not only that problems might be covered by this, generic try-except-blocks make finding errors and de- bugging quite painful. Hence, these try-except-blocks should only catch KeyErrors or at least have an error handling that differs from other exceptions. |
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nodedb | ||
.gitignore | ||
alfred.py | ||
aliases.json_sample | ||
bat2nodes.py | ||
batman.py | ||
d3mapbuilder.py | ||
ffhlwiki.py | ||
GlobalRRD.py | ||
LICENSE | ||
link.py | ||
mkmap.sh | ||
node.py | ||
nodedb.py | ||
NodeRRD.py | ||
README.md | ||
RRD.py | ||
rrddb.py |
Data for Freifunk Map, Graph and Node List
ffmap-backend gathers information on the batman network by invoking batctl and batadv-vis as root (via sudo) and has this information placed into a target directory as the file "nodes.json" and also updates the directory "nodes" with graphical representations of uptimes and the number of clients connecting.
The target directory is suggested to host all information for interpreting those node descriptions, e.g. as provided by https://github.com/ffnord/ffmap-d3.git . When executed without root privileges, we suggest to grant sudo permissions within wrappers of those binaries, so no further changes are required in other scripts:
$ cat < $HOME/batctl #!/bin/sh exec sudo /usr/sbin/batctl $* EOCAT
and analogously for batadv-vis. The entry for /etc/sudoers could be whateveruser ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/batctl,/usr/sbin/batadv-vis,/usr/sbin/alfred-json
The destination directory can be made directly available through apache:
$ cat /etc/apache2/site-enabled/000-default ... Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ... $ cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/freifunk Alias /map /home/ffmap/www/ Alias /firmware /home/freifunk/autoupdates/
To execute, run ./mkmap.sh ../www The script expects above described sudo-wrappers in the $HOME directory of the user executing the script. If those are not available, an error will occurr if not executed as root. Also, the tool realpath optionally allows to execute the script from anywhere in the directory tree.
For the script's regular execution add the following to the crontab:
*/5 * * * * /home/ffmap/ffmap-backend/mkmap.sh /home/ffmap/www