Please don't drop the list. You can read the source of ovs-vsctl.c to see an example of using the OVSDB API for C.
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 07:57:45AM +0000, Ellen Rapaport wrote: > Ovs-vsctl provides CLI, not an API. > > I'll be more specific: > I am porting OpenFlow to a router. The router has physical Ethernet > interfaces. A subset of those interfaces are configured to support Open Flow. > The interfaces may be inactive. I want to be able to configure an interface > as an open flow port (a.k.a add-port), when receiving netlink notification > that the interface becomes active and remove open flow port configuration > (a.k.a del-port) when the interface is inactive. > > Currently in order to add port I am using ovs-vsctl add-port CLI command > manually, which obviously doesn't provide me that functionality. > > One option to do what I need is: > Write a lib that provides the same functionality as ovs-vsctl, while handling > the OVSDB transactions internally. > My question is if such a lib/API set already exists. > > Maybe API for OVSDB is what I need, if it provides an ability to add specific > entries to the DB whilst taking care of transactions. > Can you be more specific on that? BTW, I'm using C. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] > Sent: 20 May 2014 17:39 > To: Ellen Rapaport > Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Is there an API to add/delete port in sw? > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 05:15:49AM +0000, Ellen Rapaport wrote: > > I'm talking about ovs-vsctl add-port/del-port utility. > > Using this utility the user can configure (CLI) which ports he wants to use > > with openvswitch. > > I need same functionality, but in software. > > This is fairly vague: what is "more software" than ovs-vsctl? But maybe this > will help: Open vSwitch comes with C and Python APIs for OVSDB. I suspect > that other interfaces exist for other languages, too. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
