Read from api

[tg44]

Add an option to read the name/ip/mac list from a rest endpoint (by get with a configurable url).

[dmitraver]

I could work on this one

[tg44]

It was not really solved. I meant that for example there is a firewall, which has a public endpoint with host/ip/mac info, and we can consume this endpoint at app start.

So the current flow is:

• the app starts
• read the config
• read the file to memory based on the config
• work based on that file

The new flow would be:

• the app starts
• reads the config
• decide if we do the old file reading or the new api reading thing
• if we do the api reading thing somehow consume the remote endpoint, parse the data
• work based on that data

One of the biggest question is probably the "what kind of response data we can consume", I would go with a simple csv like format first (like the current file), and maybe a fixed json based too. (probably the format can come from config too)

[dmitraver]

Aha, I see, then I got it wrong completely :) I thought its about extending it with a new endpoint that lists this data for particular host