[Ndn-interest] [EXT] Can I use "nfdc" outside the command line?

[Otávio Augusto]

Hi, Davide and Junxiao.

Got it, it makes sense. I believe this is enough for now. Thanks a lot for
the help.

Best,
Otávio

Em qua., 4 de out. de 2023 às 15:45, Davide Pesavento <davidepesa at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Hi Otávio,
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 4:00 PM Otávio Augusto via Ndn-interest
> <ndn-interest at lists.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, Junxiao. Thanks a lot for the quick response.
> >
> > More specifically, I need to list, create, and destroy operations for
> faces and routes at runtime. My use case requires these operations
> autonomously and based on some network states, which is why using the
> command line (nfdc) does not satisfy me.
> >
> > I believe that NFD Management Protocol is a viable solution to my
> problem, perhaps with a greater workload than I would like. If I understand
> correctly, I have to use ndn-cxx together with the rules defined by the
> protocol to perform the operations I need. For example, to request the
> creation of a face, I could use as described in
> https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/nfd/wiki/FaceMgmt#Create-a-face
> >
>
> That's correct, but please note that you don't have to reimplement the
> management protocol from scratch with Interest and Data. ndn-cxx
> already provides a higher level API that you can use to manage
> (certain aspects of) NFD directly from your application. See for
> instance ndn::nfd::Controller
> (
> https://docs.named-data.net/ndn-cxx/current/doxygen/classndn_1_1nfd_1_1Controller.html
> )
> and other classes in the ndn::nfd namespace. The documentation isn't
> great, but as Junxiao said, this is exactly the same API used by nfdc,
> so you can take a look at nfdc's code for inspiration.
>
> Best,
> Davide
>
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