Hello everyone.

In my work many people (including me) need to write a parser and/or a
builder for a certain application-layer protocol.
We work with both ASCII and binary protocols. The protocols are
usually dynamic and have many variations according to certain
parameters.

Each programmer implements the needed componenet independently, in a
different style, using different concepts.

Is it reasonable to try and suggest a generic framework for parsing
and building various protocols?
Do you have any suggestions for a concept?
Do you know of any existing framework or tool that might help?

Thanks.
Oshaer.

Uh, in the same team?

On Apr 28, 5:13*pm, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:
No, in the same department. I work at the infrastucture & tools team,
and I would like to suggest a general solution.
I am not talking about diffrerent implementations of the same
protocol, but about diffrenets attitudes when working on the same
general task.

Thanks

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:10:43 -0700 (PDT), oshaer@nds.com wrote:

to your requirement. BNF-style input and a parser in C as output.

rossum

"rossum" <rossum48@coldmail.com> wrote in message
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Coolest parser IMO is SLK (use Flex for lexer

http://home.earthlink.net/~slkpg/

works intimately and scaleable with C, C++ Java and C#, ( not minging ugly
macro munging like YACC)

Uses LL(k) grammars ... the Only grammars for the true grammar aesthete.

regards
Andy Little

oshaer@nds.com wrote:
Use a functional language like OCaml, Haskell or F# and write parser
combinators. This gives you more potential for reuse than any other
approach.

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u

On May 1, 6:54*pm, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

Hi
Can you please elaborate on this? Why do you think this is the best
approach? What do you mean by 'parser combinators?'

Thanks.

On Apr 28, 10:10*am, osh...@nds.com wrote:
This is a kind of problem that XML and the related schema and
transformation languages were meant to solve. YMMV with respect to
performance, of course.