Apache OpenDAL™ C Binding (WIP)

Example

A simple read and write example

#include "assert.h"
#include "opendal.h"
#include "stdio.h"
 
int main()
{
    /* Initialize a operator for "memory" backend, with no options */
    opendal_result_operator_new result = opendal_operator_new("memory", 0);
    assert(result.operator_ptr != NULL);
    assert(result.error == NULL);
 
    /* Prepare some data to be written */
    opendal_bytes data = {
        .data = (uint8_t*)"this_string_length_is_24",
        .len = 24,
    };
 
    /* Write this into path "/testpath" */
    opendal_error *error = opendal_operator_write(op, "/testpath", data);
    assert(error == NULL);
 
    /* We can read it out, make sure the data is the same */
    opendal_result_read r = opendal_operator_read(op, "/testpath");
    opendal_bytes* read_bytes = r.data;
    assert(r.error == NULL);
    assert(read_bytes->len == 24);
 
    /* Lets print it out */
    for (int i = 0; i < 24; ++i) {
        printf("%c", read_bytes->data[i]);
    }
    printf("\n");
 
    /* the opendal_bytes read is heap allocated, please free it */
    opendal_bytes_free(read_bytes);
 
    /* the operator_ptr is also heap allocated */
    opendal_operator_free(&op);
}

For more examples, please refer to ./examples

Prerequisites

To build OpenDAL C binding, the following is all you need:

• A C++ compiler that supports c++14, e.g. clang++ and g++
• To format the code, you need to install clang-format
  • The opendal.h is not formatted by hands when you contribute, please do not format the file. Use make format only.
  • If your contribution is related to the files under ./tests, you may format it before submitting your pull request. But notice that different versions of clang-format may format the files differently.
• GTest(Google Test) need to be installed to build the BDD (Behavior Driven Development) tests. To see how to build, check here.
• (optional) Doxygen need to be installed to generate documentations.

For Ubuntu and Debian:

# install C/C++ toolchain
sudo apt install -y build-essential
 
# install clang-format
sudo apt install clang-format
 
# install and build GTest library under /usr/lib and softlink to /usr/local/lib
sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev
 
# install CMake
sudo apt-get install cmake
 
# install Rust
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
 
# If you run the tests, install additional components
 
# install Valgrind
sudo apt-get install Valgrind
 
# install GTest
cd /usr/src/gtest
sudo cmake CMakeLists.txt
sudo make
sudo cp lib/*.a /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgtest.a /usr/local/lib/libgtest.a
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgtest_main.a /usr/local/lib/libgtest_main.a

Makefile

• To build the library and header file.

make build

• The header file opendal.h is under ./include
• The library is under ../../target/debug after building.

To clean the build results.

make clean

• To build and run the tests. (Note that you need to install Valgrind and GTest)

make test

• To build the examples

make examples

Documentation

The documentation index page source is under ./docs/doxygen/html/index.html. If you want to build the documentations yourself, you could use

# this requires you to install doxygen
make doc

License and Trademarks

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Apache OpenDAL, OpenDAL, and Apache are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation.