Can an accessor operate within another?

[tsjordan-eng]

The accessors are a very powerful tool for decommutating packets. However, what if I have a binary telemeter that has a string item which I know to be json? Can I break out that string with an accessor?

Some alternatives may be:

• using derived items with ruby that parses the json
• pushing that packet item out a router and having another interface/target access it

Any other ideas?

[jmthomas]

We're doing something similar with the http_accessor which uses a internal form_accessor to access the internal items. Unfortunately we don't have a good generic solution to this problem so I'll leave this open as an enhancements. I think @ryanmelt has some ideas ...

[ryanmelt]

So you can do this already using object_read_conversion. However it will create one item that returns a hash.
I'm coming up with some methods to make the hash usable with some other tickets.