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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2003-2018, Great Software Laboratory Pvt. Ltd.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright (c) 2019, Infosys Ltd.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+
+#include "log.h"
+
+FILE *json_fp;
+
+static char *
+seek_to_tag(char *name)
+{
+	char *tmp = name;
+	char tag[64] = {0};
+		char last_iteration = 0;
+
+	rewind(json_fp);
+
+	tmp = strchr(name, '.');
+	strncpy(tag, name, tmp-name);
+	++tmp;
+
+	while(1) {
+		char tag_not_found = 1;
+		char *line =(char *) calloc(1, 128);
+		char *entry;
+		char *tmp2;
+
+		while(tag_not_found) {
+			if (NULL == fgets(line, 128, json_fp)) return NULL;
+			if(NULL != (entry = strstr(line, tag))) {
+				tag_not_found = 0; /*found*/
+				if(last_iteration) return line;
+				break;
+			}
+			if(feof(json_fp)) return NULL;
+		}
+#if 0
+		if(NULL == strchr(tmp, '.')) {
+					/*This is the last tag*/
+					return line;
+				}
+#endif
+		tmp2 = strchr(tmp, '.');
+		if(NULL == tmp2) {
+			last_iteration = 1;
+			tmp2 = tmp+strlen(tmp);
+		}
+		memset(tag, 0, 64);
+		strncpy(tag, tmp, tmp2-tmp);
+		tmp = tmp2+1;
+		tag_not_found = 1;/*seach for next tag*/
+	}
+
+}
+
+char *
+get_string_scalar(char *path)
+{
+	char *entry = seek_to_tag(path);
+	char *value = calloc(1, 128);
+
+	if(NULL == entry) {
+		log_msg(LOG_ERROR, "%s: entry not found\n", path);
+		free(value);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (NULL == value)
+	{
+		log_msg(LOG_ERROR,"calloc function fail");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	char *tmp = strchr(entry, ':');
+	sscanf(tmp, ": \"%[^\"]", value);
+	log_msg(LOG_INFO, "%s = %s\n", path, value);
+	return value;
+}
+
+int
+get_int_scalar(char *path)
+{
+	char *entry = seek_to_tag(path);
+	unsigned int i = 0;
+
+	if(NULL == entry) {
+		log_msg(LOG_ERROR, "%s: entry not found\n", path);
+		return -1;
+	}
+	char *tmp = strchr(entry, ':');
+
+	i = atoi(tmp+1);
+
+	free(entry);
+	log_msg(LOG_INFO, "%s = %d\n", path, i);
+	return i;
+}
+
+
+int
+get_ip_scalar(char *path)
+{
+	char *val = get_string_scalar(path);
+	unsigned int addr = 0;
+
+	if(NULL == val) addr = -1;
+	else addr = inet_addr(val);
+
+	free(val);
+	return ntohl(addr);
+}
+
+int
+load_json(char *filename)
+{
+	json_fp = fopen(filename, "r");
+
+	if(NULL == json_fp) {
+		log_msg(LOG_ERROR, "Error opening json file\n");
+		perror("Error:");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/** TEST CODE
+void
+main()
+{
+
+	load_json("test.json");
+	get_string_scalar("root.scalar1");
+	get_string_scalar("root.scalar2");
+	get_string_scalar("root.scalarx");
+	get_string_scalar("root.scalar3");
+	get_string_scalar("root.scalar4");
+	get_string_scalar("root.nested.scalar5");
+}
+**/