如何从/ dev / console将数据上传到DataTables插件

Question

It seems that I need your expert opinion.

I have embedded system with installed Linux. I would like to use this system to show web page with dynamically content in DataTables plug-in ( http://datatables.net/ ). The date which I would like to show in DataTables will be received on console port (by sending request for data to console and as result the data will be received to this port). As I am using embedded system I cannot include peyton/perl and etc Interpreters in my system due to the root fs is too small.

Suggestion solution is to use daemon written on C. It will be every second sending request for data to console port, receiving the data, parse it and updating file with JSON data. This data will be used as AJAX source for DataTables plug-in on my web page.

But I think it is not gracefully way. Maybe is there some existing solutions, how to dynamically get the data from console port and upload it to DataTables plug-in?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I take it that some other machine is connected to the embedded system. In which case the easiest is probably to simply send the raw data to the console using a simple program ( cat if it's available!), and then convert it to DataTables format on the machine that collects the data.