[db-wg] Weirdness in DB files

Hi Cynthia,

You can also use an empty line as a delimiter, and ignore any lines starting with '#' or '%' if you're only interested in the objects themselves.

There is an example parser in the Whois codebase:
https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/6073451f5b250d97edc0bde5f540d949a23cd491/whois-rpsl/src/main/java/net/ripe/db/whois/common/io/RpslObjectFileReader.java

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC



> On 17 Dec 2020, at 15:45, Cynthia Revström via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> for my use case it's mainly a convenient object delimiter.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 14:15 Mahesh Aggarwal <maggarwal at ripe.net <mailto:maggarwal at ripe.net>> wrote:
> Hi Cynthia,
> 
> Thanks for you email.
> 
> We have investigated, of 1.7M lines in the aut-num split file, the last tag appears after 1.3M lines. This is because not all aut-num objects contain tags.
> I confirm that split files are well formed and no tags are missing.
> 
> There are currently 22997 out of 36481 autumn objects in split file for which tag information is available.
> Also tagging information is available for roughly 63% of ‘ASSIGNED' autumn objects.
> 
> We released the tag beta feature  in 2013 but stopped automatically updating the tags some time later. 
> So all the tags that are present in split files are automatically generated during that time period and objects created/updated after that have the tags information missing in split files.
> 
> We need to ask the community whether we resume the tagging of objects or remove the functionality all together.
> 
> Is tagging information is useful for you? We can put forward a case to the community for resuming this functionality.
> 
> Regards,
> Mahesh
> RIPE NCC
> 
>> On 17 Dec 2020, at 09:27, Edward Shryane via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net <mailto:db-wg at ripe.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Cynthia,
>> 
>> The DB team will investigate further and let you know.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Ed Shryane
>> RIPE NCC
>> 
>> 
>>> On 17 Dec 2020, at 03:49, Cynthia Revström via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net <mailto:db-wg at ripe.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi DB-WG,
>>> 
>>> I just noticed that the (at the time of writing, serial 49363913) latest aut-num split db file (possibly elsewhere too) sort of just seems to break at some point.
>>> 
>>> The lines like below simply stop appearing:
>>> 
>>> % Tags relating to 'AS3333'
>>> % RIPE-REGISTRY-RESOURCE
>>> 
>>> Here's a section where you can see it happening: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bitcynth/d81688c6b7587e0179d55b8324535ff4/raw/57fcf2829967c0a9c1039180b2fd3e2a2cbb7e09/ripedb.txt <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bitcynth/d81688c6b7587e0179d55b8324535ff4/raw/57fcf2829967c0a9c1039180b2fd3e2a2cbb7e09/ripedb.txt>
>>> 
>>> Any clue why this is occurring? or is it just a bug?
>>> 
>>> - Cynthia
>> 
> 

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