On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 09:58:04AM +0000, ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ wrote: > On 26/03/2020 09:45, Florian Westphal wrote: > > Frank Myhr <fmyhr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2020/03/26 04:38, ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ wrote: > > > > Been trying to find some documentation in these places: > > > > > > > > * https://netfilter.org/projects/libnftnl/ > > > > * https://www.netfilter.org/documentation/ > > > > * https://git.netfilter.org/libnftnl/tree/ > > > > * > > > > https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Portal:DeveloperDocs/nftables_internals > > > > > > > > > > > > but either I missed it - and thus appreciate a pointer - or there is none? > > > > > > > > The aim/goal is to utilise libnftnl with json. > > > Do these help you?: > > > https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/tree/doc/libnftables.adoc > > > https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/tree/doc/libnftables-json.adoc > > > > > > AFAIK libnftnl=libnftables, the older name just persists (confusingly) in > > > many places. > > No, these are different libraries. libnftnl is a standalone library > > with low-level helpers. > > > > libnftables is the highlevel library, its part of nftables itself. > > > > libnftables contains the ruleset parser, for example. > Bit confusing as > https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Building_and_installing_nftables_from_sources > states > > "libnftnl (formerly known as libnftables)" I have just removed this. This is a very old reference. These days: * libnftnl is the low-level netlink library. * libnftables is the high-level library, this one supports json. > Similar https://lwn.net/Articles/789528/ > > "The library libnftnl has been previously known as libnftables." I'll remove this in the template I have for future libnftnl releases. > libnftnl then cannot parse json but "Is responsible for creating/parsing > the nf_tables netlink messages"? Yes.
