This is a first in a series of commits, whose goal is to rename
the thread system in FRR to an event system. There is a continual
problem where people are confusing `struct thread` with a true
pthread. In reality, our entire thread.c is an event system.
In this commit rename the thread.[ch] files to event.[ch].
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@nvidia.com>
This commit introduces the Frontend Interface which can be used
by front-end management clients like Netconf server, Restconf
Server and CLI to interact with new FRR Management daemon (MGMTd)
to access and sometimes modify FRR management data.
This commit includes the following functionalities in the changeset:
1. Add new Frontend server for clients connect to.
2. Add a C-based Frontend client library which can be used by Frontend
clients to communicate with MGMTd via the Frontend interface.
3. Maintain a frontend adapter for each connection from an appropriate
Frontend client to facilitate client requests and track one or more
client sessions across it.
4. Define the protobuf message format for messages to be exchanged
between MGMTd Frontend module and the Frontend client.
5. This changeset also introduces an instance of MGMT Frontend client
embedded within the lib/vty module that can be leveraged by any FRR
daemon to connect to MGMTd's Frontend interface. The same has been
integrated with and initialized within the MGMTd daemon's process
context to implement a bunch of 'set-config', 'commit-apply',
'get-config' and 'get-data' commands via VTYSH
Co-authored-by: Pushpasis Sarkar <pushpasis@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Abhinay Ramesh <rabhinay@vmware.com>
Co-authored-by: Ujwal P <ujwalp@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Yash Ranjan <ranjany@vmware.com>
