MIB Smithy

Built-in Pattern Matching

MIB Smithy SDK provides a number of built-in pattern matching functions for verifying that provided information conforms to expected rules. This is useful, for example, to verify that user input is valid before passing the input on to the API so that appropriate actions may be performed (or prevented) rather than relying on an error result from the API. Using the provided pattern matching APIs can simplify this task, particularly where the required regular expressions can be very complex. In addition, this command can also be used to determine if a specified record is of a particular record type.

Syntax:

% dbcmd is patternType testValue

Where:

dbcmd

is the name of the database;

patternType

is one of the keywords specifying the pattern matching to perform, listed below; and

testValue

is the value (or record) to be compared against the pattern rule.

Returns:

• 1 if the value or record matches the specified pattern.
• 0 if the value or record does not match the specified pattern.

Pattern Specifiers:

capability

Matches if the record is an AGENT-CAPABILITIES statement.

compliance

Matches if the record is a MODULE-COMPLIANCE statement.

confgroup

Matches if the record is a GROUP in a compliance module.

confmodule

Matches if the record is a conformance module.

defined

Matches if the record the record has been defined.

document

Matches if the record type is that of a file.

identifier

Matches either an upper OR lowercase identifier.

importable

Matches any importable identifier.

lcidentifier

Matches a lowercase identifier such as a value descriptor.

leaf

Matches if the record is an OBJECT-TYPE.

module

Matches if the record is a module.

moduleid

Matches if the record is a MODULE-IDENTITY.

namednumber

Matches a named-number such as "active(1)".

node

Matches if the record is an OID value assignment or OBJECT-IDENTITY.

notification

Matches if the record is a NOTIFICATION-TYPE or TRAP-TYPE.

notifygroup

Matches if the record is a NOTIFICATION-GROUP.

number

Matches an integer decimal value.

objectgroup

Matches if the record is an OBJECT-GROUP.

objectidentifier

Matches any form for an OID accepted by the SDK APIs.

typedef

Matches if the record is a type assignment or TEXTUAL-CONVENTION.

typeref

Matches any form for a type reference accepted by the SDK APIs. (e.g. an uppercase identifier, "OCTET STRING", or module:descriptor form)

ucidentifier

Matches an uppercase identifier such as a type descriptor.

valuedef

Matches if the record is an ASN.1 value assignment (*)

valueref

Matches any form for a value reference accepted by the SDK APIs. (e.g. a lowercase identifier, object identifier or module:descriptor form)

variation

Matches if the record is a variation.

See Also

• Determining Record Types