Not sure how I failed to notice this in testing, but for the cases where there is no data to output, the common layers pass up a None python object, and the text output was sometimes turning that into "None", whereas for CVS output, at least, just omitting any value in the field would be more appropriate.
Oddly, the bulk data path did have logic for turning None into empty string, but not the status or history stats code paths. This makes it so all text output has the same transformation logic.
SpaceX has been using inconsistent field ordering when adding alerts, so field index cannot be used to consistently identify the specific alerts. Message number is more appropriate for that, anyway, but is not guaranteed to be a low enough number to fit into a bit field. Oh well, in the unlikely event that SpaceX switches to larger message numbers, they just won't show up in the alerts bit field (but will still show up in alert_detail).
This does make the bit ordering in alerts inconsistent with prior versions of these tools, but I've never actually seen one of these alerts report true, so hopefully this doesn't impact anyone.
The alerts are still sorted by index number in the alert_detail text output, which is a problem for CSV output, but I think ordering by message number instead would be pointlessly complex. alert_detail is not a great fit for CSV output anyway, due to its variable length, so just added a warning about that in the text script module doc.
A few things I noticed while porting this code to the JSON script. The only real change here is fixing the bulk history output to print UTC time instead of local time.
Probably not terribly useful unless someone needs to tunnel through a different network to get to their dish, but it makes testing the dish unreachable case a lot easier. This was complicated a bit by the fact that a channel (and therefor the dish IP and port) is needed to get the list of alert types via reflection due to prior changes.
This exposed some issues with the error message for dish unreachable, so fixed those.
Add latency and usage stat groups to the stats computed from history samples. This includes an attempt at characterizing latency under network load, too, but I don't know how useful that's going to be, so I have marked that as experimental, in case it needs algorithmic improvements.
The new groups are enabled on the command line by use of the new mode names: ping_latency, ping_loaded_latency, and usage.
Add valid_s to the obstruction details status group. This was the only missing field from everything available in the status response (other than wedge_fraction_obstructed, which seems redundant to wedge_abs_fraction_obstructed), and I only skipped it because I don't know what it means exactly. Adding it now with my best guess at a description in order to avoid a compatibility breaking change later.
Closes#5
This restores the functionality that the InfluxDB status polling script had whereby instead of using a new grpc Channel for each RPC call, it would keep one open and reuse it, retrying one time if it ever fails, which can happen if the connection is lost between calls. Now all the grpc scripts have this functionality.
Also, hedge a little bit in the descriptions for what the obstruction detail fields means, given that I'm not sure my assumptions there are correct.
Combined the history and status scripts for each data backend and moved some of the shared code into a separate module. Since the existing script names were not appropriate for the new combined versions, the main entry point scripts now have new names, which better conform with Python module name conventions: dish_grpc_text.py, dish_grpc_mqtt.py, and dish_grpc_influx.py. pylint seems happier with those names, at any rate.
Switched the argument parsing from getopt to argparse, since that better facilitates sharing the common bits. The whole command line interface is now different in that the selection of data groups to process must be made as required arg(s) rather than option flags, but for the most part, the scripts support choosing an arbitrary list of groups and will process them all.
Split the monster main() functions into a more reasonable set of functions.
Added new functions to starlink_grpc to support getting the status, which returns the data in a form similar to the history data functions. Reformatted the starlink_grpc module docstring to render better with pydoc. Also changed the way sequence data field names are reported so that the consuming scripts can name them correctly without resorting to hacky special casing based on specific field names. This would subtly break the old scripts that had been expecting the old naming, but those scripts are now gone.
The code is harder to follow now, IMO, but this should allow adding of new features and/or data backends without having to make the same change in 6 places as had been the case. To that end, dish_grpc_text now supports bulk history mode, since it was trivial to add once I had it implemented in order to support that feature for dish_grpc_influx.
