API's missing

[machinekit]

API's missing

[ArcEye]

Comment by mhaberler
Mon Apr 7 17:35:00 2014

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After looking at this code (halrmt, linuxcncrsh, schedrmt), my conclusion is: delete it, start from scratch. It is just too bad, no point in wasting time on this.

A relatively sane C API is shcom.{hh,cc}: https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/src/emc/usr_intf/shcom.hh

it seems that basic API can be retained across the 'no more NML' transition.

Going forward, the submission of commands could be based on a zeroMQ/protobuf based RPC (remote procedure call). Operations requiring status retrieval through EMC_STAT will need to be adapted to the new style, and that is still shaking out. But that can come later.

restate problem: specify a zeroMQ/protobuf based RPC interface to LinuxCNC.