[Nodeshot] draw non-OLSR wireless links

[nemesis]

 Very good!

 Do you think you will be able to dedicate some time with me (and 
 hopefully somebody else) in the next months to setup a controlled 
 standard setup on which to run unit tests?

 I explain:

 we can set up a test database with immaginary nodes, devices and ip 
 addresses (we can also use a subset of the ninux ones), then setup the 
 application to use a fake OLSR topology file, and test for each case we 
 need.

 This way whenever we encounter a new case we can develop on the test 
 environment, moreover, we'll be able to change/refactor the code without 
 the fear of breaking something and ensuring that in the end things will 
 (mostly) work, because unit tests pass.

 I'll cite another pratical example of how unit tests come handy. 
 Whenever a new django version comes out, or any critical update for any 
 dependency is released, I try to install it in my dev environment for 
 nodeshot2 and then I run all the tests. This way I'm able to individuate 
 and fix any issue really easily and quickly.

 It's a real fucking WIN. The time spent in the beginning is surely 
 worth it and will get repaid on the long run.

 Django has a Test Suite that inherits from Python standard UnitTest 
 Framework (http://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html) so everything 
 learnt for django/nodeshot2 will come handy to anyone who is serious 
 about python development.

 Federico



 On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:02:25 +0100, Clauz <clauz at ninux.org> wrote:
> Hello!
> On Thursday night I pushed a patch to draw links including devices 
> that
> don't speak OLSR, usually connected to OLSR-capable nodes through
> bridged interfaces.
>
> We have a few nodes with this setup in the Ninux Rome network:
> http://map.ninux.org/select/Halnet
> http://map.ninux.org/select/Namex
>
> The idea is to cycle through all IP addresses and to check if these
> belong to active HNA networks announced by OLSR.
>
> commit:
> 
> https://github.com/ninuxorg/nodeshot/commit/36906a832bed3dd7ad2d5bd7949017ee61fe0301
>
> cheers,
> Clauz