[SR-Users] Using reserved keywords in cfg variables

Daniel-Constantin Mierla miconda at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 09:34:06 CEST 2017


Hello,

ok, I will reproduce myself and see what can be improved there.

Meanwhile, you can update the wiki and add a note about this case so
others will be aware of the conflict.

Cheers,
Daniel


On 06.06.17 08:44, Paul Claudiu Boriga wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> Kamailio logs 2 error messages in the logfile:
>
> Jun  2 15:03:51 test-proxy1-bs kamailio: : <core> [cfg.y:3368]:
> yyerror_at(): parse error in config file /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg,
> line 254, column 9-14: syntax error
> Jun  2 15:03:51 test-proxy1-bs kamailio: : <core> [cfg.y:3368]:
> yyerror_at(): parse error in config file /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg,
> line 254, column 9-14:
>
> This is the line 254 from the config:
>
> my_name.enable = 1 descr "test variable"
>
> Regards,
> Claudiu.
>
>
> On 02.06.2017 15:58, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> On 02.06.17 13:16, Paul Claudiu Boriga wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> We found out that when using cfg variables certain keywords are not
>>> allowed, and Kamailio logs a generic error:
>>> <core> [cfg.y:3368]: yyerror_at(): parse error in config file
>>> /etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg, line 256, column 9-14: syntax error
>>>
>>> For example we cannot use words like enable/disable for var name or
>>> group name but we can use disabled or enabled:
>>>
>>> group_name.enable = 1 descr "test variable"
>>>
>>> Looking into the cfg.lex file, I noticed that these are keywords which
>>> will be interpreted as values (I don't have too much experience with
>>> flex/bison so I am not sure I got this right).
>>>
>>> We have been using Kamailio 4.4 to test this, but I think it is not
>>> specific to a version.
>>>
>>> Is this behavior documented somewhere? If not, where should it be
>>> documented? Also can we have a more specific log message in this case?
>>>
>> this should be documented in the core cookbook:
>>
>>    -
>> https://www.kamailio.org/wiki/cookbooks/devel/core#custom_global_parameters
>>
>>
>> Was it the only error message printed in this case?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>
>
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