The beginnings of a library to deal with the new Synchronet BBS List (SBL)

v4 storage format (json).

exec/load/sbbslist_lib.js

+// $Id$
+
+// Synchronet BBS List (SBL) v4 Library
+
+load("synchronet-json.js"); // For compatibility with older verisons of Synchronet/JavaScript-C without the JSON object
+
+var list_fname = system.data_dir + 'sbbslist.json';
+
+function read_list()
+{
+    var f = new File(list_fname);
+    print("Opening list file: " + f.name);
+    if(!f.open("r")) {
+        alert("Error " + f.error + " opening " + f.name);
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    var buf = f.readAll().join(' ');
+    var list = [];
+    try {
+        list=JSON.parse(buf);
+    } catch(e) {
+        print("JSON.parse exception: " + e);
+    }
+
+    f.close();
+
+    return list;
+}
+
+function write_list(list)
+{
+    var out = new File(list_fname);
+    print("Opening / creating list file: " + list_fname);
+    if(!out.open("w+")) {
+        alert("Error " + out.error + " creating " + out.name);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    print("Writing list file: " + out.name + " (" + list.length + " BBS entries)");
+    out.write(JSON.stringify(list, null, 4));
+    out.close();
+    return true;
+}
+