Hi Yulong,
Good question. That has been on my list of things to document for a while.
Does
https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/19389/
answer your question?
Please suggest improvements and improve the text as you notice gaps.
Best regards,
Ole
> On 7 May 2019, at 07:49, Pei, Yulong <yulong....@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hello vpp-dev & csit-dev,
>
> I have a question about how to know data type mapping between *.api.json
> with PYTHON API ?
>
> Let me use “./src/vnet/ip/ip.api” as example, as I know, vppapigen will
> autogenerate “ip.api.json” from “ip.api”
>
> And then vpp_papi can autogenerate its python api from “ip.api.json”, is
> there any way to know data type mapping between *.api.json with PYTHON API ?
>
> For example:
>
> In “./src/vnet/ip/ip.api”,
>
> define ip6_fib_details
> {
> u32 context;
> u32 table_id;
> u8 table_name[64];
> u8 address_length;
> u8 address[16];
> u32 count;
> u32 stats_index;
> vl_api_fib_path_t path[count];
> };
>
> Then in “ip.api.json”, I got,
>
> [
> "ip6_fib_details",
> [
> "u16",
> "_vl_msg_id"
> ],
> [
> "u32",
> "context"
> ],
> [
> "u32",
> "table_id"
> ],
> [
> "u8",
> "table_name",
> 64
> ],
> [
> "u8",
> "address_length"
> ],
> [
> "u8",
> "address",
> 16
> ],
> [
> "u32",
> "count"
> ],
> [
> "u32",
> "stats_index"
> ],
> [
> "vl_api_fib_path_t",
> "path",
> 0,
> "count"
> ],
> {
> "crc": "0xef11e94d"
> }
> ],
>
> My question is that which kind of python data type can be used to map below
> json types ?
> [
> "u8",
> "table_name",
> 64
> ],
>
> [
> "u8",
> "address",
> 16
> ],
>
> [
> "vl_api_fib_path_t",
> "path",
> 0,
> "count"
> ],
>
> Best Regards
> Yulong Pei
>
>
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