Guide for using icommands (or rodsClient) as a library in other programs?

[Samuel Lampa]

I was wondering if there is any guide for using the icommands (or, I guess, the underlying rodsClient, IIUC) in other programs, e.g. for building a custom client?

(I have so far only very basic knowledge of C, but wanted to try out some things (while learning more C in the process), and thus looking for any pointers to get started quicker)

Best

// Samuel

[Jason Coposky]

Samuel,

We have not formally documented the C API yet, but if you want to get started I would look at the rcDataObj* set of client-side API calls.  You can also look at the *Util functions in iRODS/lib/core/src/*.cpp which correspond to the icommands.  lsUtil() is in iRODS/lib/core/src/lsUtil.cpp and is called by ils to get the actual work done.

To begin with some simple test code you can start with calling rcDataObjCreate(), rcDataObjWrite() and rcDataObjClose().

I can send you some example code offline if you like.

thanks,

—
Jason Coposky
Chief Technologist, iRODS Consortium
RENCI at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(919)445-9675
jas...@renci.org

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[Samuel Lampa]

Nice, thanks a lot for the pointers, that should help!

Yes, a few more code examples would be awesome. (My mail is samuel dot lampa at that common google mail domain, or bils.se, in case you need it).

Best

// Samuel