[Doc] kind of an update {R, A, W, S} / a bit off topic

[cherepanovic]

Hello bgpstream community,

my request is a bit off topic. Could you provide a description of the BGP updates (and format description of a message). The official documentation from ietf.org is too textuall (too much text, no overview).

Thank a lot!

[digizeph]

Hey @cherepanovic , thanks for using BGPStream!

Can you take a look at this documentation on data encoding in bgpstream and see if it clarifies things for you? https://bgpstream.caida.org/docs/encoding

[cherepanovic]

Is there any possibility to request the rips and updates from a collector at the same time?

It seems that I have to make two requests for the same time in order to get these two types of updates.

[digizeph]

@cherepanovic

try record_types=["updates","ribs"], when initializing BGPStream object. The following example should print out both ribs and updates.

import pybgpstream

# create and configure the stream
stream = pybgpstream.BGPStream(
    from_time="2017-07-07 00:00:00", until_time="2017-07-07 00:10:00 UTC",
    collectors=["route-views.sg", "route-views.eqix"],
    record_types=["updates","ribs"],
    filter="peer 11666 and prefix more 210.180.0.0/16"
)

# add any additional (or dynamic) filters
# e.g. from peer AS 11666 regarding the more-specifics of 210.180.0.0/16:
# stream.parse_filter_string("peer 11666 and prefix more 210.180.0.0/16")
# or using the old filter interface:
# stream.add_filter("peer-asn", "11666")
# stream.add_filter("prefix-more", "210.180.0.0/16")

# read elems
for elem in stream:
    # record fields can be accessed directly from elem
    # e.g. elem.time
    # or via elem.record
    # e.g. elem.record.time
    print(elem)

# alternatively, records and elems can be read in nested loops:
for rec in stream.records():
    # do something with rec (e.g., choose to continue based on timestamp)
    print("Received %s record at time %d from collector %s" % (rec.type, rec.time, rec.collector))
    for elem in rec:
        # do something with rec and/or elem
        print("  Elem Type: %s" % elem.type)

[cherepanovic]

I have already tried it and got a failure

  File "reader.py", line 71, in __init__
    record_type= ["updates","ribs"],
  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pybgpstream/pybgpstream.py", line 62, in __init__
    self._maybe_add_filter("record-type", record_type, record_types)
  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pybgpstream/pybgpstream.py", line 93, in _maybe_add_filter
    self.stream.add_filter(fname, f)
TypeError: argument 2 must be str, not list

[digizeph]

Note that it should be record_types, not record_type.
record_types accept an array, while record_type accepts a single string.