This Ruby script parses the IEEE 802.1 Maintenance email reflector archive and finds new maintenance request forms. It then parses and uploads these to the 802.1 Maintenance Database web application. The maintenance database is a Ruby on Rails web app which exposes a JSON API as well as a web-based user interface.
The email archive is managed using Listserv which generates an index on HTML pages. The excellent XML and HTML parser, Nokogiri, can parse these without difficulty.
The URLs of the maintenance database API and the Listserv message archive, together with the usernames and passwords for each,
are stored in secrets.yml which is not included in the sources. An example of that file file is available as example-secrets.yml.
The script can be deployed in a Docker container. I use a very simple one based on Ruby:2.7.6.
Bear in mind that the secrets.yml file will be included into the container, so the container is secret too. There are methods
to isolate the secret information from the container, but I have not bothered to do this.
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John Messenger, ADVA Optical Networking Ltd., Vice-chair, 802.1