RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: socket interface

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The d-bus does look like what I'm talking about. My problem is that we're operating on devices that don't run d-bus.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrej Shadura <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 7:30 AM
To: Gladish, Jacob <Jacob_Gladish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: socket interface

Hi Jacob,

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:04, Gladish, Jacob <Jacob_Gladish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was curious what people's thoughts were regarding the current wpa_supplicant/hostapd domain socket interface. It seems to me that it was built primarily to support cli interaction which sends/receives strings.  I'm not a big fan of that approach.
>
> I have been thinking that it would be better if both wpa_supplicant and hostapd  supported a more structured command/control interface that made it easier to write code against. This could be something like onc/rpc or something more modern that would work easily with multiple programming languages.
>
> If this is something that people think is valuable? I'd like to discuss some approaches to doing this and then start hacking.

I believe both wpa_supplicant and hostapd support D-Bus, which may be just what you’re looking for.

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Cheers,
  Andrej
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