[tor-bugs] #9380 [BridgeDB]: Increase strictness of descriptor parsers according to spec

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#9380: Increase strictness of descriptor parsers according to spec
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     Reporter:  sysrqb       |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  BridgeDB     |    Version:
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Comment (by atagar):

 > atagar, thoughts? Basically, we need to parse bridge descriptors, extra-
 info descriptors, and networkstatuses and retrieve ~10% of the information
 they contain.

 Hi sysrqb. Yup, this would be a perfect use case for stem. I assume by
 'bridge descriptors' you mean 'bridge variant of server descriptors' in
 which case yup, we have support for all of those...

 *
 [https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/server_descriptor.html#stem.descriptor.server_descriptor.BridgeDescriptor
 Bridge Server Descriptor]
 *
 [https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/extrainfo_descriptor.html#stem.descriptor.extrainfo_descriptor.BridgeExtraInfoDescriptor
 Bridge Extrainfo Descriptor]
 * [https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/networkstatus.html Network
 Status Documents] (though these, of course, don't contain bridges)

 If you have need of a descriptor parser then I definitely think it would
 be worth snagging stem. Stem does rather strict validation of the content
 (which you're looking for) and has quite a bit of tests around these
 modules. Also, I keep it up to date with the specs.

 Cheers! -Damian

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