Hi Marcos. Yes. Your assumption is correct. A library user expects access to the library.
I'm going to ask the question that you haven't. Why won't Ole, as maintainer, allow it? The build system uses something called vppapigen to generate the c include files and the json files. It could as easily generate static stubs so that development with python could be usable without a running vpp instance. The thing is that there are other trivial issues that need to be addressed first. Wouldn't you love to be able to do 'pip install vpp_papi' and get going? Yes, vpp builds artifacts for vpp_api_python, but who actually wants vpp_api installed globally? The python best practice is to install a venv, and do pip install. Even 'make test' follows this pattern. vpp_papi has changed significantly, yet the version number is never, ever increased. To address this, on April 5, 2019, I attempted to automate versioning of vpp_papi to the git tag. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/18694. There is a version on pypi, it is woefully out of date, and honestly not usable. On June 18, 2019, I contributed https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/20035, to automate the process of updating pypi, with a simple command 'tox -epypi' see:src/vpp-api/python/tox.ini I have also floated the idea of moving vpp_papi to a submodule, so that it could be easily developed against if pypi were too burdensome to add to the release process. Just include the submodule in your code, pin it to any commit you like, and you're off to the races! To be 100% clear, this is not an attack on Ole. I have nothing but respect for him. He is extremely talented and has been *extremely* generous with his time to me. As for me, as anyone here can tell you, I'm not a C programmer. The only reason, I ever considered touching the c code, was because of Ole's help and guidance and his suggestion to fix the API instead of conforming the test. He/Vratko removed me as one of the maintainers of papi. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/22672. I'm cool with not being a maintainer, kinda funny that it was stuffed into another changeset. I have been called out repeatedly for submitting unrelated changes ;) All my changesets are still out there, so that should others become blocked, they can still get work done. 'git-review -X 12345' is your friend. (If you use -X instead of -x, you can remove the changeset with 'git rebase -i' if you want to submit a contribution) In that spirit, if you want a python module with static methods, let me know. Paul On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:57 AM Vratko Polak -X (vrpolak - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at Cisco) <vrpo...@cisco.com> wrote: > > All available api are represented in python. > > > > That is one part of it. > > Not every "available" message is useable, > > as some messages need corresponding VPP plugins, > > which may be disabled. > > > > >> all available Python modules to use in VPP API. > > > > It depends on what do you mean by "Python module". > > If you mean "usable messages", > > you can examine the message table [0] > > after PAPI has connected to a running VPP. > > > > Vratko. > > > > [0] > https://github.com/FDio/vpp/blob/66d10589f412d11841c4c8adc0a498b5527e88cb/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_papi.py#L834-L836 > > > > *From:* vpp-dev@lists.fd.io <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> *On Behalf Of *Ole Troan > *Sent:* Friday, 2020-November-13 15:51 > *To:* Marcos - Mgiga <mar...@mgiga.com.br> > *Cc:* vpp-dev <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> > *Subject:* Re: [vpp-dev] Python API modules > > > > Hi Marcos, > > > > On 13 Nov 2020, at 15:08, Marcos - Mgiga <mar...@mgiga.com.br> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello There, > > > > I believe this is a trivial question, but where / how can I get a list of > all avaialble Python modules to use in VPP API. > > > > > > You can’t. > > They are auto generated from the available json representations of .api > files. > > All available api are represented in python. > > > > Cheers > > Ole > > > > > > > > > > >
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