[PATCH net-next 10/11] tools: ynl: decode hex input

[Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen]

On 9/6/25 12:27 AM, Jacob Keller wrote:
> On 9/5/2025 3:51 AM, Donald Hunter wrote:
>> Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast at fiberby.net> writes:
>>
>>> This patch add support for decoding hex input, so
>>> that binary attributes can be read through --json.
>>>
>>> Example (using future wireguard.yaml):
>>>   $ sudo ./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py --family wireguard \
>>>     --do set-device --json '{"ifindex":3,
>>>       "private-key":"2a ae 6c 35 c9 4f cf <... to 32 bytes>"}'
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast at fiberby.net>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter at gmail.com>
>>
>> FWIW, the hex can include spaces or not when using bytes.fromhex(). When
>> formatting hex for output, I chose to include spaces, but I don't really
>> know if that was a good choice or not.
> 
> I also prefer the spaces for readability.
I formatted it with spaces for clarity, even without spaces it was a bit
long for one line. Spaces also has the advantage that you don't have to
think about endianness.

Should we define the display hints a bit more in a .rst, or is it OK that
they end up being implementation specific for each language library? Do we
want them to behave the same in a Rust YNL library, as they do in Python?

BTW: The rest of the key used in the example can be found with this key-gen:
$ printf "hello world" | sha1sum
[redacted key material]