MikroNode

Full-Featured asynchronous Mikrotik API interface for NodeJS.

	var MikroNode = require('mikronode-ng');

	var connection = MikroNode.getConnection(process.argv[2], process.argv[3], process.argv[4]);
	connection.connect(function(conn) {

	var chan = conn.openChannel();
	conn.closeOnDone = true;
	chan.write('/ip/address/print', function() {
		chan.closeOnDone = true;
		chan.on('done', function(data) {
			var parsed = MikroNode.parseItems(data);
			parsed.forEach(function(item) {
				console.log('Interface/IP: ' + item.interface + "/" + item.address);
			});
		});
		chan.once('trap', function(trap, chan) {
			console.log('Command failed: ' + trap);
		});
		chan.once('error', function(err, chan) {
			console.log('Oops: ' + err);
		});
	});
});

/* Now let's do this with Promises */

var connection = MikroNode.getConnection(process.argv[2], process.argv[3], process.argv[4], {
	closeOnDone : true
});

connection.getConnectPromise().then(function(conn) {
	conn.getCommandPromise('/ip/address/print').then(function resolved(values) {
		console.log('Addreses: ' + JSON.stringify(values));
	}, function rejected(reason) {
		console.log('Oops: ' + JSON.stringify(reason));
	});
});

Installation

Clone this repository into your node_modules directory.

• or - $ npm install mikronode-ng

Features

• Channel based communication
• Multiple Connections can be used in parallel in the same Node process
• Multiple Channels can be used in parallel on the same Connection
• Synchronous execution of commands issued on the same channel
• Asynchrounous execution of commands issued on different channels
• Focus on high performance
• ES6 Promise support for Connection and Channel
• TLS Support

Upgrading from versions < 1.0.0

There are 2 changes that will need to be made...

var MikroNode = require('mikronode-ng');			

// From	
		var connection = new MikroNode(...)
// To
		var connection = MikroNode.getConnection(...)
// or
		var connection = new MikroNode.Connection(...)
		
// From
		connection.closeOnDone(true);			
		channel.closeOnDone(true);
// To
		connection.closeOnDone = true;			
		channel.closeOnDone = true;
			

Everything else should work as expected.

TODO

• ???

API

See the API JSDocs in the doc directory.

Notes for Node < 4.0.0

MikroNode requires 2 ES6 features that appeared in Node 4.0.0: Promises and WeakMaps. If you're running an earlier version of Node and MikroNode can't find those symbols, it will attempt to load them from the 'es6-promise' and 'weakmap' packages respectively. If you wish to use other packages to supply those symbols, require them before requiring mikronode and set the global symbols.

global.WeakMap = require('some-weakmap-polyfill').WeakMap;
global.Promise = require('some-promise-polyfill').Promise;
var MikroNode = require('mikronode-ng');

Tests

The test directory contains a test that exercises all functionality including Promises and listens/cancels.

Examples

Examples (including Promise examples)

Connect to a Mikrotik, and add an address to ether1

var MikroNode = require('mikronode-ng');

var connection = MikroNode.getConnection('192.168.88.1','admin','password');
connection.closeOnDone = true;

connection.connect(function(conn) {
	var chan=conn.openChannel();
	chan.closeOnDone = true;
    chan.write(['/ip/address/add','=interface=ether1','=address=192.168.1.1'], function(c) {
       c.on('trap',function(data) {
          console.log('Error setting IP: '+data);
       });
       c.on('done',function(data) {
          console.log('IP Set.');
       });
    });
 });

Writing the program for the example API conversation on the Mikrotik Wiki

DON'T RUN THIS IF YOU'RE CONNECTED VIA ether1! :)

 var MikroNode = require('mikronode-ng');
 var connection = MikroNode.getConnection('192.168.88.1','admin','password');

 connection.connect(function(conn) {
		
    conn.closeOnDone = true;
    var chan2=conn.openChannel(2);
    chan2.write('/interface/listen',function(chan) {
       chan.on('read',function(data) {
          packet=MikroNode.parseItems(data);
          console.log('Interface change: '+JSON.stringify(packet));
       });
    });
		
    var chan3=conn.openChannel(3);
    chan3.closeOnDone = true
		
    chan3.write(['/interface/set','=disabled=yes','=.id=ether1'],function(chan) {
       chan.on('done',function(d,chan) {
          // We do this here, 'cause we want channel 4 to write after channel 3 is done.
          var chan4=conn.openChannel(4); // We'll use this later.
          chan4.closeOnDone = true;
          chan4.write(['/interface/set','=disabled=no','=.id=ether1'],function() {
            var chan5=conn.openChannel(5); 
            chan5.closeOnDone = true;
            chan5.write('/interface/getall',function(chan) {
               chan.on('done',function(data) {
                  packets=MikroNode.parseItems(data);
                  packets.forEach(function(packet) {
                      console.log('Interface: '+JSON.stringify(packet));
                  });
                  chan2.close(); // This should call the /cancel command to stop the listen.
               });
            });
          })
       });
    });
 });

Simplifying the above by reducing the number of channels.

DON'T RUN THIS IF YOU'RE CONNECTED VIA ether1! :) Notice how the callback embedding is not needed using the syncronous capability.

 var MikroNode = require('mikronode-ng');

 var connection = MikroNode.getConnection('192.168.88.1','admin','password');
 connection.connect(function(conn) {

    conn.closeOnDone = true; // All channels need to complete before the connection will close.
    var listenChannel=conn.openChannel();
    listenChannel.write('/interface/listen',function(chan) {
       chan.on('read',function(data) {
          packet=MikroNode.parseItems(data);
          console.log('Interface change: '+JSON.stringify(packet));
       });
    });

    var actionChannel=conn.openChannel();
    // These will run synchronsously
    actionChannel.write(['/interface/set','=disabled=yes','=.id=ether1']); // don't care to do anything after it's done.
    actionChannel.write(['/interface/set','=disabled=no','=.id=ether1']); // don't care to do anything after it's done.
    actionChannel.write('/interface/getall',function(chan) {
       chan.on('done',function(data) {
          packets=MikroNode.parseItems(data);
          packets.forEach(function(packet) {
              console.log('Interface: '+JSON.stringify(packet));
          });
          listenChannel.close(); // This should call the /cancel command to stop the listen.
       });
    });
    actionChannel.close(); // The above commands will complete before this is closed.
 });

A simple Promise scenario

// If your nodejs installation doesn't have Promise support, uncomment
// the following line
//require('es6-promise').polyfill();
// or globally export Promise from your favorite ES6 compatable Promise library.  
var MikroNode = require('mikronode-ng');
 
var connection = MikroNode.getConnection(process.argv[2], process.argv[3], process.argv[4], {
	closeOnDone : true
});

connection.getConnectPromise().then(function(conn) {
	conn.getCommandPromise('/ip/address/print').then(function resolved(values) {
		console.log('Addreses: ' + JSON.stringify(values));
	}, function rejected(reason) {
		console.log('Oops: ' + JSON.stringify(reason));
	});
});

The methods decodeLength and encodeString were written based on code here on the Mikrotik Wiki.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Brandon Myers [email protected] Copyright (c) 2015 George Joseph [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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