Both the L2 page and the ports page in #335 need to page through /l2.json
and decode the same fields, and the second copy arrived carrying the two
bugs the first one had only just been fixed for. Rather than keep two
copies in step by hand, the transport and the decoding move to main.js,
which every page already loads, and each page keeps only what is its own.
walkL2(onDone) pages through the table once, parses idx and vlan out of
hex, maps the port to a physical number or to 'CPU', and calls
onDone(entries, ok). It stops on a wrapped index, an empty page or 4096
entries, all of which set ok. A page that comes back as anything other than
200, or with a body JSON.parse rejects, is asked for again at the same
index up to three times; only once those run out does the walk end with ok
clear, so a caller can tell a finished table from a partial one. l2.js
keeps the s and l to label mapping, since that needs the page's own
translations, redraws only when ok is set, and restarts the walk from its
callback either way.
Two things change while moving:
The next request goes out from the previous reply rather than from a
setInterval that fires whether or not the last one came back. The httpd
serves one connection at a time, so a timer that outruns the responses only
queues work it cannot use.
A walk that reaches 4096 entries hands over what it collected. Before it
threw the entries away and cleared its own interval, which left the page
unable to refresh again until it was reloaded.
The retry is not a new idea, it is the old behaviour written down. The
previous code ignored anything that was not a 200 and let the interval ask
for the same index again, so a blip never disturbed the table on screen.
Dropping that on the way to a chained walk would have made every timeout
redraw the page with a truncated table, which at one connection at a time
is not a rare event.
Driven with a scripted server in node, running the helper itself rather
than a copy of it: an empty table gives 0 entries in 1 request; three pages
ending in a repeated index give 61 entries in 3 requests, asking for 0, 30
and 60; an empty page ends the walk after 2; a 500 and a malformed body are
each retried at the same index and then complete normally, asking 0, 30, 30
and 31; three failures in a row end the walk with ok clear and the 30
entries already collected; 4096 entries in one page end it with ok set; the
CPU port decodes to 'CPU'; vlan and idx come back as numbers.
main.js grows by 1331 bytes and l2.js loses 1039, so 292 bytes of flash.
Worth stating where they land: main.js is loaded by every page, so pages
that never walk the table now carry the helper too. That is the cost of
having the decoding exist exactly once, which is the point of the move.
l2.js reads the last index of a reply to know where the next page starts.
With the firmware side of this branch an empty table answers [], and
s[s.length-1] then throws on undefined. It used to answer commas with
nothing between them and throw in JSON.parse instead, so this is the same
case reaching a different line rather than a new one. An empty reply now renders what
has been collected and starts the next pass from zero.
The 4096 entry cap compared the array against the number instead of its
length, so it never fired: an empty array and a 5000 element one both
compare false. Comparing the length restores what the check was for.
Review feedback on #307: these files are served from flash byte for byte,
so comments ride along on every page load. The three added in this branch
are gone, 357 bytes across l2.js and style.css. The column list existed in
three copies inside renderL2() and is now a single const.
The paint loop reuses existing rows and rewrites port, MAC, VLAN and the
delete button, but never the type cell - only the insert path set it. With a
fixed row order that stayed invisible, since a row usually landed back where
it was. Sorting moves rows, so every other column followed the data while
type kept the previous row's value, which made sorting by type look broken
when the sort itself was correct.
Clicking a heading sorted the table but nothing said so afterwards - the
only feedback was the rows moving, which is no help when the sort key is a
column you are not looking at.
Give every sortable heading a permanent marker: a neutral double arrow when
it is not the sort key, up or down when it is. The marker sits in its own
span so the i18n pass, which replaces the heading text, does not wipe it.
The port column was mapped from logical to physical numbering first and the
CPU label applied afterwards, testing for port 9. On an 8+1 board the SFP
port maps to physical 9 as well, so every entry learned on the SFP was shown
as CPU - on this switch that was 26 of 30 entries.
Label the CPU while the number is still logical, before the mapping, so the
two cannot collide.
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