vapi: support api clients within vpp process

Add vapi_connect_from_vpp() and vapi_disconnect_from_vpp()
calls to allow API clients from within VPP process.

Add a new memclnt_create version that gives the user a
knob to enable or disable dead client scans (keepalive).

Type: feature
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>
Change-Id: Id0b7bb89308db3a3aed2d3fcbedf4e1282dcd03f
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/vlibmemory/memclnt.api b/src/vlibmemory/memclnt.api
index bd999b51dd0..0532f1734bf 100644
--- a/src/vlibmemory/memclnt.api
+++ b/src/vlibmemory/memclnt.api
@@ -232,3 +232,19 @@ define control_ping_reply
   u32 vpe_pid;
 };
 
+define memclnt_create_v2 {
+    u32 context;                /* opaque value to be returned in the reply */
+    i32 ctx_quota;              /* requested punt context quota */
+    u64 input_queue;            /* client's queue */
+    string name[64];            /* for show, find by name, whatever */
+    u32 api_versions[8];        /* client-server pairs use as desired */
+    bool keepalive[default=true];  /* dead client scan keepalives */
+};
+
+define memclnt_create_v2_reply {
+    u32 context;                /* opaque value from the create request */
+    i32 response;               /* Non-negative = success */
+    u64 handle;                 /* handle by which vlib knows this client */
+    u32 index;                  /* index, used e.g. by API trace replay */
+    u64 message_table;          /* serialized message table in shmem */
+};