| Pau Espin Pedrol | 7e0b2dd | 2020-03-10 11:46:39 +0100 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | == Troubleshooting |
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| 3 | === Format: YAML, and its Drawbacks |
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| 5 | The general configuration format used is YAML. The stock python YAML parser |
| 6 | does have several drawbacks: too many complex possibilities and alternative |
| 7 | ways of formatting a configuration, but at the time of writing seems to be the |
| 8 | only widely used configuration format that offers a simple and human readable |
| 9 | formatting as well as nested structuring. It is recommended to use only the |
| 10 | exact YAML subset seen in this manual in case the osmo-gsm-tester should move |
| 11 | to a less bloated parser in the future. |
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| 13 | Careful: if a configuration item consists of digits and starts with a zero, you |
| 14 | need to quote it, or it may be interpreted as an octal notation integer! Please |
| 15 | avoid using the octal notation on purpose, it is not provided intentionally. |