[Ns-developers] Bug 215 Name Container

[Tom Henderson]

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>> What are your thoughts about pushing this into ns-3.3?


I am OK with sliding this to ns-3.4, so long as we just try to resolve 
the issues now and check it in early in the next open cycle, such as 
later this month.   The main open issues seem to be

1) what restrictions to place on strings, so that they interact well 
with the attribute system or other things like trace file names.  Should 
it just be "/" or also "*", whitespace, etc.?

2) what helper API might look like.  I hope that we could reduce this:
ApplicationContainer app = onoff.Install 
(NameList::GetObjectOfName<Node> ("Node 0"));

to something like this:

ApplicationContainer app = onoff.Install ("Node 0");

Other comments:

- I don't have a strong opinion of the ordering of the parameters in 
Add(); what is there now seems fine to me

- I would also prefer Find() instead of GetNameOfObject()

- As I mentioned earlier, I'd like also as part of the name system:
Ptr<NetDevice> Node::GetDeviceByName (std::string name); to allow for 
non-unique device names such as "eth0"

- and Mathieu previously suggested to remove the Channel names

- I agree with Mathieu's suggestion to assert on a duplicate name

Tom