feature request: extend clist operations with pair sets

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 05:00:40PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Well, we cannot have clist literals, only pair set literals.  That makes
> > this limitation of clist operations rather unfortunate.
> > 
> > Can BIRD be extended to allow operating on clists using pair sets?
> > 
> > I.e. clist.add(pair set), clist.delete(pair set)...
> 
> You could use clist.delete(pair set) or clist.filter(pair set).
> Only nonimplemented think is clist.add(pair set), which is
> operation that would expand compact representation of pair sets
> to explicit representation of clist, which is generally expensive
> and that may not be obvious to some users. For example,
> even restricted user from bird client could exhaust all memory by
> using show route command with some filter containing clist.add([(*,*)]).
> 
> If we explicitly limit number of communities in clist, it could be done,
> but it is probably better idea to implement clist literals, which may
> be also useful for explicitly setting bgp_community with initial clist.

Well, clist literals would solve my use case, and also the use case
presented in this thread.  So that might indeed be a better option.

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