[WIP][enchancement] Upload device configuration

[atb00ker]

This is a WIP for uploading active configurations to controller.
I did basic testing on it, working to make a pull on controller to receive the uploaded configurations.

[atb00ker]

The other part of this PR was here: openwisp/netjsonconfig#152

[feckert]

@atb00ker This is exactly the kind of feature I am looking for in OpenWISP.
Can you explain this a little bit more, how it works?

My use case is that I have a router out in the field that is already configured.
Now I want it to send the configuration from to the OpenWISP and after that I want to change the configuration from OpenWISP and not directly on the router anymore. But for that I need to import the configuration from the router into the OpenWISP.

Is this possible with your approach?

Currently there is such a merge operation going on.
The whole configuration in the router is not known to the OpenWISP.
The means OpenWISP merges its configuration into the router downstream.

[atb00ker]

@feckert
Hi,

You can understand the workings of the two PRs here: openwisp/netjsonconfig#100

1. [WIP][backward-conversion] Recognize templates #100 netjsonconfig#152
2. [WIP][enchancement] Upload device configuration #107

These are related PRs.

However, unfortunately, no one is actively working on it so perhaps, you'll need to rebase this & work on testing and fixing the errors.

[outbackdingo]

why hasnt this been committed yet ? any chance we can test it ?

[atb00ker]

Hi,

@outbackdingo , please read the response here:

1. [WIP][enchancement] Upload device configuration #107 (comment)
2. [backward-conversion] Recognize templates netjsonconfig#100 (comment)

If you have knowledge about openwisp-config and python, then yes please help to complete this, otherwise, It will take a little while for us to get back to this! 😄