[EXT] Integration GO language into Freeradius

[Matthew Newton]

On 21/03/2022 21:49, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>> On Mar 21, 2022, at 1:09 PM, Martin Gignac <martin.gignac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> As I can see there is no possibility to process/manipulate the whole
>>> REQUEST ( in case the rlm_perl module is RLM_REQUEST ) attributes ( because
>>> the module sends only a limited attribute set via uri ).

> Note sure what the issue here is with Go... You can already write FreeRADIUS modules in Go
> you just export the same symbols as one of the C modules.

This sounds to me like another case of "just learn how to use unlang".

In over a decade of building FreeRADIUS configs I have never used any of 
the scripting language modules. Unlang might not always be the 
prettiest, but it does work, and is pretty much going to be the fastest 
option.

There may be a few unusual cases where something more flexible could 
possibly be justified (and unlang does fall slightly short in a few 
areas, occasionally requiring some "creative" config), but I've never 
found it hard enough to need to use something else.

There's been too many cases where people have written configs in python 
or perl because that's what they're used to... and the result has been 
much simpler and faster once that's all ripped out and it's recreated in 
unlang. I really don't see adding yet another language much of a help.

-- 
Matthew