[DFDL-WG] newVariableInstance direction property discussion - PCAP example

Tue Apr 13 04:27:34 EDT 2021

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the information; I've added it to my calendar.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I usually only get an email with the
minutes of the last call (after the fact, obviously).
In the past I remember receiving a number of invites/ics, but it has
been a while since I get any such email with an actual
call/invite/ics.

--Marcos

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:10 AM Steve Hanson <smh at uk.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Hi Marcos
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> Your email is in our DFDL WG call calendar invite, which also has all the links; are you not receiving them? Next call is Thurs 15/4 @ 4pm UK.
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> From:        "Marcos Bento (external)" <Marcos.Bento at esa.int>
> To:        DFDL-WG <dfdl-wg at ogf.org>
> Date:        13/04/2021 08:54
> Subject:        [EXTERNAL] Re: [DFDL-WG] newVariableInstance direction property discussion - PCAP example
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> Hi,
>
> We are currently working on supporting newVariableInstance in DFDL4S,
> so I'd like attend the next conference call and tune in on this discussion.
>
> Can anyone help me, and pointing me to the next call(s) schedule/coordinates?
> I've noticed that there was a move to Github, and I couldn't locate
> this information.
>
> --Marcos
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:26 PM Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For our next conference call, I said I would walk through the Apache Daffodil newVariableInstance feature, and how for unparsing we had to add a direction property to variables so they can be evaluated with forward referencing for unparsing.
> >
> > The code I'd like to discuss is here:
> >
> > https://github.com/DFDLSchemas/PCAP/blob/cb9ee66aa565d982f01130918bcd785def51b58d/src/main/resources/com/tresys/pcap/xsd/pcap.dfdl.xsd
> >
> > The defineVariable that is the best motivating example is defined at line 104, and is used at line 213. This is a simple common-subexpression elimination, but it is used to avoid redundant calls to dfdl:valueLength in the dfdl:outputValueCalc of the stored length field named InclLen.
> >
> > There is a second example of using newVariableInstance at unparse time in this schema also, with the variable definitions starting at line 115, and usage in the group defined starting at line 320. This usage is far more complex, and in hindsight I think a DFDL parse of PCAP data should not be creating IP addresses in the Infoset that look like "1.2.3.4", because it requires all this complexity to unparse from that back to the binary representation. However, it is a good exercise in how the newVariableInstance feature works.
> >
> > -mikeb
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